I'm not sure how I haven't yet talked about my love of the Picross series of games from Nintendo. The concept is surprisingly simple, yet amazingly difficult to master. There's a simple grid, anywhere from 5x5 to 15x15, and there are numbers indicating how many squares in each row or column need to be filled in. A "15" would indicate the whole row is filled in, while a "0" means nothing gets filled in. However, a "3 4" indicates there's a group of three and a group of four that need filling, but when you have fifteen squares to choose from, it can be difficult to figure out which ones are right and which ones aren't.
The later games in the series increased the size of the puzzles and even took them into the third dimension (because adding a z-axis to everything makes it harder), but having just wrapped up a recent play through of the original game, I figured I'd talk about it.
