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Mario's Picross is a fun online Classic game that you can play here on Games HAHA. If you enjoyed this game and want to play similar fun games then make sure to play Mario's Tennis, Mario's Time Machine or Mario's Picross 2 or just go to the Classic games page. Picross (also known as nonograms, paint-by-numbers, hanjie or griddlers) is an addictive type of puzzle that combines logic with pixel art. It's kind of a like minesweeper combined with sudoku. The goal of picross is to use the number hints along the top and left sides to figure out which pixels to fill in. Kongregate free online game Picross Fever 3D - A quick minigame of picross in 3D! Use your mind and careful planning to solve various 3D picr. Play Picross Fever 3D. Kongregate free online game Simple Picross - The puzzle game for your left and right brain! Simple Picross combines the mind-bending addict. Play Simple Picross.
So, either the average solving times are wrong, or I'm a genius, because I'm more often than not way below the average completion time of the puzzles. Either way, picross always gets me addicted. This is not the best picross game I've ever played, but it's way up there.
The graphics are as simple as they have to be, and they are not unappealing. Given that Picross is such a simple game, I'd love to be able to customize the game's appearance (such as in, say, Pixelo), because all that blue eventually bores me. Also, the music is good, but there's only one song, and it eventually gets old. I usually just mute the music and continue playing.
The gameplay is, well, Picross. You get a matrix and indications in the rows/colums that tell you the length of the pixel segments contained in said row/column, and you must use that information to draw the image. There's the option to mark squares with an X, which is very useful, and that's about it.
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The controls and user interface are what annoyed me the most in this game, seriously. Sometimes, you just move your mouse a little bit out of the line you're drawing, and that results in drawing over squares you didn't intend to, and losing lives. I like Pixelo better because it contains quick keyboard controls which eliminate this problem. Also, as if it weren't bad enough that the mouse doesn't fixate on the line you're drawing, you don't even get a highlight of the line/column the mouse is pointing at, and that's an even bigger annoyance, especially in the larger levels.
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So yeah, given that Picross is such a piss simple concept, you sure could have dedicated more to making the controls less annoying to use.