Picross 3D dated for March

By Robert Purchese Published 15 January, 2010

Fewer rules, more logic.

Nintendo's announced plans to release DS nonogram puzzler Picross 3D on 5th March in Europe.

The transition from a paper-style layout to 3D means you'll now be chiselling out objects from a block by eliminating cubes based on numeric information in surrounding rows and columns.

No I don't understand either, but apparently Picross 3D has fewer rules than Picross DS, and relies solely on logic to solve puzzles rather than contradictions between multiple rows.

There's a level editor, and creations from it can be uploaded and shared online. Nintendo promises there will be official puzzles to download, too.

Picross DS is one of the handheld's most fiendishly compelling puzzlers. Head over to our Picross DS review from 2007 to find out why.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Santino #1 2 years ago

    aw i thought it was early feb for some reason, cannot wait for this

  • andywilkie35 #2 2 years ago

    Excellent stuff, hope this'll be as addictive as the first one

  • Toothball #3 2 years ago

    I really like Picross. Been playing it since Mario's Picross on the Gameboy. The prospect of taking it into 3D is quite enticing, and I can't wait to see how it plays.

  • Paulie_P #4 2 years ago

    Can't wait for this. I've been playing it since Mario's Picross on the GB, I even ordered the Japenese Colour Picross (although that left me slightly disappointed as it was too easy with the colours).

  • X201 #5 2 years ago

    Woo Hoo \o/ Have been waiting ages for this

  • kinky_mong #6 2 years ago

    Looking forward to this, I've loved Picross games since the Mario one on the Game Boy.

  • JHuxley #7 2 years ago

    Seriously? If this is the game I'm thinking about this has been out in Japan for ages.

    And it's chuffin' brilliant, by the way.

  • amv71 #8 2 years ago

    hurrah - i loves me some picross

    now all we need is illust logic for the wii in Europe!
    Edited by 3 at 15/01/10 @ 12:17

  • linea #9 2 years ago

    Awesome

    I don't understand the 'fewer rules' thing though. It's not like the rules of Picross are complicated.

    Actually I don't understand the 'logic' thing either. Surely it's logic you use to work out what things should be by deducing from contradictions... that's what the game is about. Deductive reasoning.

  • JHuxley #10 2 years ago

    @linea

    If it's the one I've played, the rules are exactly the same apart from the fact that cubes have a number for each side (hence 3D). Maybe less rules than some versions of Picross, but not the vanilla version.

  • WJF #11 2 years ago

    Can't wait for this one. Picross was one of my fav DS puzzlers (never played the Gameboy ones...)

  • abigsmurf #12 2 years ago

    @linea

    On Picross DS once you got to a certain difficulty, it became impossible to solve them purely based on logic alone. You had to 'guess' if a square was filled or not then use a different kind of mark and keep going, assuming that square was filled. If it became clear it was impossible for that to have been filled later on, you basically had to then undo everything you'd done back to that point.

    Added a trial and error element to the game that made puzzles much more time consuming.

  • CivilD #13 2 years ago

    I'm 300 puzzles into the Japanese version, hopefully finish it before the English version comes out. Most addictive game ever.

  • Genji #14 2 years ago

    I've played it and finished all the puzzles.

    Sorry, but 2D Picross was far better.