October 13^th, 2005 (8:03pm) - PuzzleHome.com has announced the release of the new version of Griddlers Deluxe, a logic puzzle for the whole family. Griddlers Deluxe v5.1 offers several playing modes, a built-in puzzle editor, a comfortable interface , and a collection of ready-made griddlers of various complexity levels. These features make Griddlers Deluxe v5.1 incomparably superior to griddlers on paper.

Griddlers originate from Japan, where at the close of the 20th century two people, Non Ishida and Tetsuya Nishio, independently came to the identical idea of the puzzle. According to it, any image, presented as an array of
black and white or coloured pixels on a grid, can be converted into number clues. With a little thought and perseverance one can recover the original image using only these numbers. The recovery of an original image from numbers showing the place of every pixel on the grid is the underlying principle of the puzzle.

It took only a few years for the first ’nonograms’, as they were called then, to reach millions of people from the pages of the Telegraph, Mainichi and other periodicals. The idea has long since outgrown the limits of the project started by the Telegraph. Today, the absorbing exercise of wit engages people’s interest in every part of the world.

More information about the game can be found at the website http://puzzlehome.com.