Mario's Picross (マリオのピクロス, Mario no Pikurosu) is the first in a series of Mario themed Picross titles released in the 1990s. It is a collection of nonogram logic puzzles involving a grid with numbers for every row and column, which refer to the amount of marked squares within the grid. The game features Mario as an archaeologist who chisels away to form images on the grid. It was followed by two Japan-only sequels, Picross 2 on the Game Boy and M...
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Mario's Picross (マリオのピクロス, Mario no Pikurosu) is the first in a series of Mario themed Picross titles released in the 1990s. It is a collection of nonogram logic puzzles involving a grid with numbers for every row and column, which refer to the amount of marked squares within the grid. The game features Mario as an archaeologist who chisels away to form images on the grid. It was followed by two Japan-only sequels, Picross 2 on the Game Boy and Mario's Super Picross on the Super Famicom.
As picross is traditionally played, to solve a puzzle the player must mark a box in a window of varying sizes to create the resulting picture. The numbers on the top and left side of the window guide the correct boxes to mark (for example, if the window is 10×10, and one of the numbers at the top is a "10", that means all ten boxes in the column below it are part of the solution to the puzzle. If the numbers "5" and "4" are at the left of the window, that means that all but one of the boxes in the row...
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