Beware!

Have you ever heard of Pic-a-Pix puzzles? How about Nonogram? Picross? Griddlers?

All different names for the same type of puzzle, one which I'm hopelessly addicted to. The puzzle is basically a grid that once solved displays a picture of some sort. There are numerical clues on the horizontal and vertical which mark how many adjacent squares are 'filled' for each row and column. To get an idea of how it works, check out this animated GIF which shows a time-lapse of someone solving one.

I stumbled across these puzzles over a year ago when a saw a link to Conceptis Puzzles. This site posts a number of free puzzles each week including Sudoku, Pic-a-pix, and many more (there are even complex connect-the-dot puzzles that you can print out).

The problem is, Conceptis only releases 4 Pic-a-pix puzzles of varying difficulty each week which I burn though fairly quickly (either by completing the puzzles, or deciding not to do them because they are too large and would take too long to finish). So, although I'm addicted, my access to them was metered and I remained a functioning human being.

Until I found Griddlers.net... This site has thousands and thousands of these puzzles which you can sort by size, popularity, colors, etc. On top of that, there are multi-griddlers which contain half-and-half colored squares and a weird but similar triangular grid puzzle called triddlers.

With unfettered access to these puzzles, I have become a useless grid filling machine.