Shadepix
A picross game on a dark board, with one date-seeded daily nonogram for everyone.
Every day: One nonogram a day, the same board for every player in the world, generated from the calendar date. Solving it on consecutive days pays more diamonds, and the daily never costs energy. New puzzle: Once a day, with the calendar date (the listing does not state the time).
Shadepix is a classic nonogram game for iPhone and iPad: fill squares from the row and column clues until a pixel picture appears. One Daily Puzzle a day is the same board for every player in the world, generated from the date, and it is how you earn diamonds. There are no ads.
About Shadepix
Shadepix plays like any nonogram. The numbers beside each row and above each column give the lengths of the runs of filled squares in that line, in order. You fill squares and mark the ones that must stay empty, and when every clue is satisfied a small pixel picture appears. You can drag across a row or column to fill several squares in one stroke.
The Daily Puzzle is generated from the calendar date on the device, so every player in the world gets the same board without a server. It never costs energy, and it is the main way to earn diamonds: the reward grows with each consecutive day, and every seventh day of a streak refills your energy for free.
Outside the daily there are 330 hand-drawn pictures in ten packs, from Starter and Animals to Space, Music and Weather, plus five advanced packs where one 20x20 picture is solved as four boards in a row. Each pack is a 30-stage journey with boards from 5x5 up to 15x15. A wrongly filled square is turned into a cross for you, so the picture never comes out wrong, but three mistakes end the board.
Starting a non-daily puzzle costs one energy from a bar of five that refills over time. Shadepix has no ads, no account and no tracking; optional diamond packs buy hints, unlocks or a faster refill. Game Center has achievements and worldwide leaderboards for pictures solved and best streak. It works offline, is translated into 30 languages and came out in September 2026.
How to play Shadepix
- Tap Daily Puzzle on the home screen.
- Read the clues: each number is a run of filled squares in that row or column, in order.
- Use Fill to paint squares and Mark to cross out ones that must stay empty; drag to do a whole run.
- Avoid three mistakes, which end the board.
- Finish the picture to collect the day's diamonds and grow your streak.
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Tips
- Start with lines whose clues add up close to the line's length: most of their squares are forced.
- A clue of 0 empties the whole line; mark it first.
- Use Mark generously so you can see what is left in each line.
- Keep the daily streak: every seventh day refills energy for the other packs.
Questions
Is the daily puzzle the same for everyone?
Yes. The listing says the daily board is the same for every player in the world and is generated from the calendar date.
Does Shadepix have ads?
No. It uses an energy bar instead, and the Daily Puzzle never costs energy.
Is it free?
Yes. Optional diamond packs exist for hints, unlocks and energy refills.
Does it work offline?
Yes, completely, including the daily puzzle.
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