Picross 3D: Round 2 2015

Is it still worth playing?

A Nintendo 3DS sequel to the nonogram puzzle game Picross 3D from the Nintendo DS, released in Japan in October 2015. As in the first game, the flat grid of a regular nonogram becomes a block of small cubes that you chip away to reveal a picture in three dimensions. The numbers are the clues. A number on a row or column says how many cubes it holds when the picture is done. A circle around it means they are split into two groups, a square means three or more, and a row with no number follows no rule. With those clues you work with a paintbrush to mark cubes that stay and a hammer to break the rest, using the buttons and the touch screen. Each mistake costs: breaking a cube that belongs to the picture counts as a strike, and five strikes mean starting over. Working in space rather than on a flat grid is still the whole of the challenge today.