Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #637 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Released on: 2007-05-11
• Rating: To Be Announced
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Picross DS is the latest puzzle phenomenon from Japan and is set to become as popular as Sudoku. Picross DS is logical puzzle that has players mark squares in a grid in order to paint a picture. Players discover which squares to mark by analyzing numbers that are given for every row and column which indicate the amount of marked squares within the grid. Picross DS is played almost exclusively with the stylus, but there is also the option of conventional button controls.

Picross DS offers more than 300 puzzles, as well as unlockable high-score mini-games, spread over various difficulty levels in the normal puzzle mode. Picross DS also offers a race against the clock in the single player mode, putting players under pressure to improve there skills and ability on a daily basis, this will all be tracked over time.

Additional features offered in this great touch! generation title is the opportunity to create your own puzzles, and share them with friends via wireless communication, and the WiFi connection. WiFi also offers the opportunity to go online and battle against other users and down load additional puzzles.

Customer Reviews

Not as good as Mario's Picross
I felt I had to write this review because I dowloaded the demo off of the Nintendo Channel and I thought it was really good, you get four sample puzzles to solve and then I got hooked. I've loved Picross ever since the version on the Gameboy, which was called Mario's Picross.

So, I bought this and got it and did, like, the first 12 puzzles then I realised, you can just scribble over the screen and it reveals the finished picture! And there is absolutely no penalty for doing this! you can then go back and draw the picture from memory with no mistakes to get a good time. I mean, video games have always had cheat modes, but they are hidden and have to be discovered or entered as a code.

In Mario's Picross you can make about 5 mistakes and that's it, Game Over, which is fair, and gives you some challenge and some incentive to play.
I recommend buying Mario's Picross instead, and if you don't have a gameboy you can buy one for the price of this game.

what a great game
I have now had picross for 2 months and play at least 3 puzzles everyday, it is very addictive and great fun for anyone who enjoys suduku and jigsaw puzzles. Once you have worked out the blocks and if you complete it in under 1 hour it animates and the animal or design moves around the screen. I can hear you ask but anyone can complete a puzzle in an hour, but in the normal mode it gives you a 2 minute penalty for a wrong block and the next wrong block gets a 4 minute penalty and so it goes up so 1 hour is quickly achieved.
In free mode there are no penalties but you can work at it and still get it wrong. It starts with easy puzzles and gradually builds up. You can always go back to the easier levels and see if you can complete it in a quicker time. A great puzzle and I hope the company brings out picross 2 and 3 and so on.

Disappointing
I love Griddlers and had high hopes for this game. The main problem is that a large 20 x 35 puzzle just does not tranlsate to the small Nintendo screen, so they have devised zoom mode to overcome this. I think zoom mode is just nasty. You need to see the whole Griddler when you are solving it and for me, I just couldn't get on with this feature. I have played the game for about an hour and will now be selling it on and going back to puzzles in the newpaper with pen & paper! Sorry