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Picture Cross
by Nebulark Studio · Puzzle · v1.1.0
Fill the graph-paper grid so every row and column matches its clue numbers and a little pixel picture appears. A fresh five-puzzle Daily Ladder every day, plus 30 hand-drawn pictures to collect.
How to play
- Each row and column clue lists the lengths of its runs of filled cells, in order, with at least one empty cell between runs. Fill the cells to match them all.
- Pick Daily Ladder (ranked) or Picture Pack and press Play.
- Tap or click to fill a cell. Right-click, long-press or switch the tool to ✕ to mark a cell you know is empty.
- Drag to fill or mark a straight line of cells; a counter shows how long the line is. A finished row or column crosses out its other cells for you.
- Made a slip? Undo (U or Ctrl+Z) takes back the last step.
- Solve every row and column to reveal the picture in colour.
- Daily Ladder: solve all 5 pictures as fast as you can. Each hint adds 20 s; with Check on, each caught mistake adds 10 s. Solve it on consecutive days to build a streak.
Controls
Keyboard
- Left click — fill · Right click — mark ✕ · drag — paint a straight line
- Arrows — move the cursor · Space / Enter — fill · X — mark · Backspace — clear
- U or Ctrl+Z — undo · H — hint (+20 s) · Z — zoom · C — mistake check · T — swap tool
- ? — how to play · Esc — pause · M — mute
Touch
- Tap — fill · drag — paint a straight line · long-press — mark ✕
- Fill / ✕ tool, Undo, Zoom, Hint and Check buttons below the grid
- Zoomed: drag a clue strip or use two fingers to scroll the grid
- ? — how to play · Pause button — pause
About Picture Cross
Picture Cross is a calm logic puzzle on cream graph paper. Each row and column has a strip of clue numbers: the lengths of its runs of filled cells, in order. Fill cells with teal ink, cross out the ones you know are empty, and drag to paint whole lines. Satisfied clues fade away, and when the last one is done the picture tints into full colour. Every puzzle has exactly one solution and can be solved by logic alone. Race the Daily Ladder, five generated pictures from 5×5 up to 15×15 that are the same for everyone each day, for the fastest total time (hints and caught mistakes add seconds), or relax with the Picture Pack: 30 original pictures, from a mushroom and a sailboat to an owl and a hot-air balloon, saved to your own gallery. Big grids have a 2× zoom view on phones.
Features
- ✓ 30 original hand-drawn pictures in 5×5, 10×10 and 15×15, each verified to have exactly one solution
- ✓ Daily Ladder: the same five generated pictures for everyone each day, 5×5 to 15×15
- ✓ Validated time leaderboard for the Daily Ladder
- ✓ Straight-line drag painting with a live length counter, right-click and long-press marking, satisfied clues that fade and finished lines that cross themselves out
- ✓ Undo for every stroke, and Save / Continue for a run in progress
- ✓ Daily streak for solving the ladder on consecutive days
- ✓ Coloured picture reveal and a gallery of solved pictures with best times
- ✓ Optional mistake check and hints, each with a time penalty
- ✓ 2× zoom view for big grids on phones with sticky clue strips
- ✓ Mouse, keyboard and touch controls
- Category
- Puzzle
- Devices
- desktop, tablet, mobile
- Developer
- Nebulark Studio
- Last updated
- Nov 10, 2026
