| Japanese Mosaic Puzzles is a type of very addictive puzzles.
These puzzles are also known as Paint by Numbers, Color by Numbers, CrossPix,
O-e-kaki logic, Nonograms, Japanese crosswords, or Picross.
But besides original monochrome puzzles, Japanese Puzzles
has the color puzzles, where different colors can be used for drawing! So, JMPuzzles
icludes two types of puzzles - Paint by Numbers and Color by Numbers.
You draw the picture in accordance with the numbers to the left of the rows
and on top of the columns. The picture is made up of filled squares and the blank
squares. The numbers indicates how many groups of filled black or colored squares
are contained in each row or column, and how many uninterrupted colored squares
each group contains.
So, the rules are:
1. Each number represents the length of the block of consecutive filled
cells on its line.
2. Filled cell blocks are arranged in the order of numbers.
3. There is at least one white cell between two filled blocks.
Note: In the color by numbers puzzles blocks with the different colors
can adjoin.';
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