History Main / GridPuzzle

* ''Webcomic/NineToNine'': When [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]], they not only gain fur and wolf features but also a thirst for solving Sudoku puzzles. Unfortunately, they also become dumber, which makes the aforementioned task harder.

* ''VideoGame/{{Picross}}'' is the video game version of the nonogram puzzle. Its inclusion in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' franchise helped spurn the popularity of grid puzzles as minigames.

* ''VideoGame/{{Picross}}'' is the video game version of the nonogram puzzle.

* Nonograms, variously known as Griddlers, Pic-A-Pix, and other names.

* VideoGame/{{Statik}}'': The first puzzle the players face is a variant on this idea. But before you can solve it you first must figure out the device to set all the pieces in place.
* VideoGame/{{Trace}}'': The lock on the [[spoiler:outside door]] requires you to place the gold stars in the correct cells of the grid.

SuperTrope of QueensPuzzle and MagicSquarePuzzle.

* Nonograms, variously known as VideoGame/{{Picross}}, Griddlers, Pic-A-Pix and other names.

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* Sudoku, Futoshiki, Kenken and other [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_square Latin Square]] puzzles.

* Cliff Johnson's games (''VideoGame/TheFoolsErrand'', ''VideoGame/AtTheCarnival'', ''VideoGame/ThreeInThree'') include several variations, such as unscrambling a picture, a map, or a crossword. Some used irregular grids.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Riven}}'', the Fire Marble Puzzle is one of these. You must deduce where to place the six colored spheres in a 25x25 grid. [[spoiler: Overlaps with EnterSolutionHere, since you're just re-creating a map. The trick is gathering the information to make the map, then figuring out the precise positioning through trial and error.]]
* ''VideoGame/KhimeraPuzzleIsland'': The puzzles of this island, are nonograms.
* A couple of puzzles in ''VideoGame/LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis''.
** Mudball Wall has a grid with the color and shape of the ball determining which cell gets hit; "Very Hard" and "Very Very Hard" adds a second color inside the shape. On "Oh So Hard" and "Very Very Hard", one variable doesn't correspond directly to its position in the grid, but a pattern still applies to it (e.g., the top row's shape order might be square-star-triangle-circle-diamond but the next row is star-triangle-circle-diamond-square).
** Hotel Dimensia requires Zoombinis be sorted by one of their features per dimension of the room grid. The size of the hotel corresponds with the difficulty: on "Not So Easy" there's only one dimension (sort by one of the four Zoombini features), on "Oh So Hard" and "Very Hard" the hotel expands to two dimensions (one feature for the row, another for the column; "Very Hard" has some rooms blocked off because of [[EvilCounterpart Fleens]] wrecking them), and "Very Very Hard" has three dimensions (the third one achieved by subdividing each of the rooms into a suite with five rooms apiece).
* The true ending of ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' ends with such a puzzle. In the original DS release it's sudoku; in the later re-releases it's a number-base puzzle.
* In the video game adaptation of ''VideoGame/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'', a simple marbles-in-the-holes puzzle is used to guard the ancient temple. The game then offers you a selection of more difficult puzzles that have nothing to do with the plot but hey, we designed the interface, might as well use it more than once ...

Usually the grid is square, but it need not be quadrilateral; it could even have irregular boundaries.

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* The QueensPuzzle.
* {{Magic Square Puzzle}}s.

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* In VideoGame/{{Riven}}, the Fire Marble Puzzle is one of these. You must deduce where to place the six colored spheres in a 25x25 grid. [[spoiler: Overlaps with EnterSolutionHere, since you're just re-creating a map. The trick is gathering the information to make the map, then figuring out the precise positioning through trial and error.]]

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* Mudball Wall in ''VideoGame/LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis''. The size of the grid and the number of variables goes up with the difficulty level. On "Oh So Hard" and "Very Very Hard", one variable doesn't correspond directly to its position in the grid, but a pattern still applies to it.

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* This is the [[spoiler: final]] puzzle in ''VideoGame/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''.

* Nonograms, variously known as [[VideoGame/Picross]], Griddlers, Pic-A-Pix and other names.

* Nonograms, variously known as Picross, Griddlers, Pic-A-Pix and other names.

* In VideoGame/{{Riven}}, the Fire Marble Puzzle is one of these. You must deduce where to place the six colored spheres in a 25x25 grid.

* In [[VideoGame/{{Myst}} Riven]], the Fire Marble Puzzle is one of these. You must deduce where to place the six colored spheres in a 25x25 grid.

* Mudball Wall in ''VideoGame/LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis''. The size of the grid and the number of variables goes up with the difficulty level.

* Several puzzles in ''[[ThreeInThree 3 in Three]]'', with irregular grids.
* Nonograms, variously known as Picross, Griddlers, Pic-A-Pix and other names.
* In [[{{Myst}} Riven]], the Fire Marble Puzzle is one of these. You must deduce what locations to place the 6 colored spheres in a 25x25 grid.
* Mudball Wall in ''LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis''. The size of the grid and the number of variables goes up with the difficulty level.

* Nonograms, variously known as {{Picross}}, Griddlers, Pic-A-Pix and other names.

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* Mudball Wall in ''TheLogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis''. The size of the grid and the number of variables goes up with the difficulty level.