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Puzzle Quarry

The Nonogram Archive

Nothing here is stored anywhere. Every past daily is chosen again from its own date the moment you ask for it, which is why none of these links can rot.

Puzzle #2 Hard Time 0:00 Decided 0/100

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A hard 10×10 board. Drag across cells to fill them, or switch mode to mark them blank.

Check this before you rely on it. This nonogram generator is provided free and without warranty, and its results are not professional advice.

Pick a day

Chosen again, not fetched

A conventional archive is a directory of saved files and it fails in the ordinary ways directories fail: something gets pruned, a migration loses a month, an old link comes back holding a different board from the one somebody remembers. There are no files here. Each entry is a date, and the date is enough to pick the same drawing again, because every step from one to the other is arithmetic.

That gives it a property worth naming. What you are handed is not a copy of that day’s board; it is that day’s board, chosen the same way a second time. The archive therefore has no edge and no upkeep. It runs back to the first daily and stops, because before that date there was no picture of the day to be — not because a retention policy expired.

It also means the archive is where the library is visible. Every drawing at every size will appear here eventually, and a reader working backwards through the list is working through the whole of it in the order the dates chose.

Days you missed, and how to use the list

An old day played today is play like any other: it lands in your history and it can take your best time at that size. What it cannot do is put a broken streak back together, because a streak that could be repaired after the fact would be measuring persistence you did not have.

Because difficulty here belongs to the drawing rather than to the weekday, the level printed beside each date is doing real work. Somebody who wants twenty minutes rather than an hour can scan down the column and pick one; somebody who wants to drill the hardest argument on the ladder can pick the expert ones and work through them. That choice is the thing this archive can offer that a weekday rota cannot.

Common questions

How far back does the nonogram archive go?

Back to the very first daily and not a day earlier, because there was no picture of the day before that. Everything since is there, chosen fresh from its own date each time you open it.

Will these links still work in a year?

Yes, and for a dull reason: there is nothing stored that could go missing. A date goes in and the same drawing comes out, this year or in ten.

Does catching up on old days mend a streak?

No. A streak counts days you were actually there for, and one that could be patched later would say nothing at all. The board still counts towards your history and your best time.

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