NOTE, PLEASE:
I have enough of these, so won't be downloading. I believe the specs are wrong and this will play on 32 bit machines. GGOTD has been posting links to Steam recently, not because that is the source, but to take advantage of Steam reviews and it's listed System Requirements, just as they have often done by linking to Big Fish, though that is not currently a source site, either. Unfortunately, someone on Steam has listed these as requiring a 64 bit operating system. I have 4 of these grid puzzles from 8Floor, and 3 of them give me the standard "not a valid Win 32 application" error when I click on the the game shortcuts. Also, I have other Toomky games that have this same behaviour. If you get this error, what you need to do to make these work is go to the folder that the game installed in, and click on the icon that says "Game". The "Picross Hansel and Gretel" icon may give this error because of the updated Toomky software which is coupled into that icon, but the actual Game icon should work fine when double clicked. The icon with the game's that actual name, and any shortcuts on your desktop or program menu, draw on this Game icon, which contains the actual game program. Those using more modern 64 bit machines can click the shortcuts as they normally would.

It is picross puzzles. Do you not know how picross works? Did someone in the back of the top balcony just go - Nope, never heard of them? Actually, its not tetris and I'll bet a lot of you NEVER have tried them since they seem brain-y and spook-y and mysterious! Fine then, I guess I better explain this in detail as even the tutorial might not help.

Picross are logic puzzles where you use number clues along the edges of the grids horizontal rows and vertical columns which indicate how many of the cells you need to color in using the left mouse button in order to reveal the hidden picture. When there is more than one number shown, that means the colored cells need to be separated by at least one or more empty non colored cells and using the right mouse button you can optionally mark the alleged non color cells during your guessing. If all is in the right places, the numbers at the end of the grid for that row/column disappears and the cells locks into place. As a general rule you can assume that the bigger the grid, the harder the puzzle. Higher numbers might be easier to figure out initially such as a big combo might have only a limited numbers of ways the combination can be arranged in to the grid. As you get further in a puzzle, those filled spots of course can make it easier to guess the other spots with the rest of the clues, and hopefully being a picture might give some added ideas where to color or not. Once all the spots are filled, you get to see a image that you figured out from those clues and possibly a burst of dopamine hits your system kind of like falling in love..but without all the dating... Picross are also known as nonograms or griddlers, Handjie puzzles, Pic-a-Pix puzzles etc. In Nonogram puzzles for example, the picture is random, whereas Picross puzzles will reveal a hidden picture.

This one is a sequel to Picross Fairytale - nonogram: Red Riding Hood secret, has about 40 hours of gameplay (or 100 if you suck). As already covered nicely by Whiterabbit we've had picross logic games here previously, and at minimum are reskinned versions (different themes) like this one has a lot of the same basics as the fairytale version. Some others of course will have gameplay differences as well so its good to read reviews and descriptions in depth to see if a game generally is more of what you may have liked, or how it differs in some manner. I can see why some like this genre and theres a ton of content if you do... for me it sometimes kinda feels like its dentist day but you just ate a big box of oreos because you like your dental hygienist and your teeth look sparkly white afterwards. :)
Rating: B-

Egypt Picross: Pharaoh's Riddles (Jan 2020), Royal Riddles (Aug 2015), Riddles of the Mask (April 2017), Nonograms: Wolf's Stories (June 2019), CryptoPics June 2012, and Shellblast (July 2009) are just a few of the others besides what Whiterabbit mentioned just from this site so your bound to have plenty of gameplay should you enjoy this genre.

Windows Vista Home Premium

Game loads but the numbers in the margins aren't visible. Had the same problem with a previous picross and tried several suggested fixes to no avail. Gonna have to pass, not worth too much effort to try to track down a fix.

Improvements for picross games:
• Since the row/column numbers slant bottom-left to top-right, having the crossing-out of the numbers slanting in the same direction makes it difficult to read the number that is crossed out. It would be nice if the cross-outs slanted from top-left to bottom-right.
• It would be good to hi-light the actual row/column numbers in addition to the rows and columns as the cursor hovers over the squares. It is very frustrating to get penalized for clicking the correct square...in the wrong row or column.
• Please change the font used for the numbers…it is a distraction to force us to determine whether we’re seeing a 7 vs. 1 or 3 vs. 5, especially when they’re crossed-out.
• In some of your picross games you use a bright and obvious color/image for the blank squares. This is good. In others of your picross games the selected blank squares are very lightly indicated (e.g. Riddle of the Mask) and, depending on the ambient lighting, it’s not very obvious that a particular square is out of play.
• Similarly, in some of your games you hi-light the selected rows/columns so lightly that it’s not at all easy to verify which row/column I’m on.

Hansel&Gretel contains the following improvement:
 rather than punishing me for guessing wrong, you now indicate the rows/columns that are not correct and allow me to find the error myself.
 you no longer hide the numbers that are correct.
 The selected ‘filled’ vs. ‘empty’ squares are now very obvious.
 Automatically filling in empty rows/columns is an improvement that eliminates a tedious distraction.
 I accept that it’s now possible to change the selections between ‘filled’ and ‘empty’, in exchange for the punishment of a mere mistake.
 It would still be useful to have the rows & columns (including the numbers) highlighted in some manner, to indicate which row/column we’re on.
Thank you for these improvements.

Don't know if this is just a bad brain day or not, but these are more challenging than the recent games. Definitely will enjoy playing these.

Thanks again for quality games.

Today's game needs no introduction other than the fact that this is essentially like the other griddlers given away on this site, Just like with an alternative game, Sudoku which is also I think a Japanese crossword puzzle, the math has to add up in order to have the right squares on the field.

Every griddler game given away thus far has some kind of tutorial built in so if anyone is new to this kind of game be sure to pay attention to it as it has important clues on how to play,

There are many expert tutorials on YouTube if you're still unable to figure things out, At the end of the day I would like a relaxing Mahjong game in place of a Nonogram. I just don't fare well with these puzzles :)

I can't see anything that is Japanese with this game.
What did I miss?

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