Mei Tanaka

Mei Tanaka writes about logic puzzles, attention, and the small things we do when we put our phones down. She lives in Kyoto and has solved every puzzle in Nonogram Zen at least twice.

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Are nonograms good for your brain? What the evidence says Wellbeing · 5 MIN Nonograms vs sudoku: which logic puzzle fits you Solving · 5 MIN Do you ever have to guess in a nonogram? Almost never Solving · 6 MIN Nonogram, picross, griddlers, hanjie: one puzzle, many names Basics · 5 MIN The overlap technique, the first tool Solving · 7 MIN The rules of nonograms, on one page Basics · 8 MIN How to solve nonograms, from the first clue Solving · 6 MIN What is a nonogram, exactly Basics · 6 MIN The line-by-line method, slowly explained Solving · 8 MIN