Sketch, Share, Solve for Windows

Free-to-play nonogram puzzle

Sketch, Share, Solve is a free-to-play nonogram puzzle game from the RDK team. This app also works as a photo sketch software that lets you create your own puzzle, share them with friends, or solve the game’s built-in library of puzzles as well as those created by the community. You’ll need to follow the clues given from the vertical and horizontal grids to generate an image.

Also known as Picross, this works as a visual version of Classic Sudoku or Just Sudoku, you can play Sketch, Share, Solve to relax or challenge yourself. Enjoy both its simplicity and varying difficulty.

Create pixelated images

At its core, Sketch, Share, Solve is a nonogram puzzle. This specific subgenre challenges your skills in logic and deductive reasoning by filling in squares depending on the numbers given at the side of a grid. The numbers on a side tell how many cells need to be shaded. Take note, however, that this puzzle is deceptively simple. Its simple rules make for very complex gameplay possibilities.

This simple nature is perfectly captured in the app. It does away with any unnecessary features, evident through its minimalist layout. It has a black-and-white color scheme paired with pixelated visuals, retaining the simplicity often associated with nonogram puzzle games. Its binary puzzles can be solved using simple and intuitive controls. Additionally, it has a growing community that ensures new puzzles from fellow players.

As mentioned earlier, this is a deceptively simple game. While there are easy to accomplish levels, some of the built-in stages in the game are frustratingly difficult. To put this in context, there are stages that can be done in less than five minutes, although some of them could take almost an hour to solve. For fans of the game, this means a steady progression as you play on.

A well-polished picross game

Simply put, Sketch, Share, Solve is a very promising picross game not only for individual players, but for the community as well. It captures everything that puzzle-goers love: an intuitive and minimalistic game design and a steady difficulty progression. It also supports custom puzzles that can be solved by other players. Be warned about its difficulty, though, as it can get really challenging even to fans of the genre.