FreeNono is an open-source implementation of the nonogram game — a logic puzzle in which cells in a grid have to be colored or left blank according to numbers given at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture.

With FreeNono comes a collection of thousands of nonogram riddles that can be played in many different game modes. They can be played against the clock, with penalties for every wrong move, like solving a nonogram on paper, ...

To install FreeNono under Debian/Ubuntu/etc. just download the .deb file from the release and run the command:

 apt install -f ./freenono_0.10-1_all.deb

FreeNono is released under the GNU General Public License v2 or newer.

Many of the distributed nonograms are of our own design. But some were collected from different sources on the internet and out of magazines. If your nonogram found its way into FreeNono and you do not want that, please inform us and we will remove it from our distribution.

Translations were provided via Launchpad:

• Sinhalese translation by කසුන් ඉන්දික, samanthika perera
• Russian translation by Eugene Marshal, Aleksey Kabanov
• Spanish translation by Adolfo Jayme, Ivan
• German translation by Christian Wichmann
• Japanese translation by Christian Wichmann
• French translation by AGuechoum, Eliovir, Jean-Marc

FreeNono requires Java SE 7 or later.

If you installed the Debian/Ubuntu package of FreeNono it is possible to control it with a game pad or joystick. This feature is experimental and not yet fully implemented. If the game pad or joystick is in stand-by while starting a game some errors may occur.

Please go to http://www.freenono.org/ to submit bug reports, request new features, etc.

FreeNono includes parts of or links with the following software packages and programs, so give the developers lots of thanks sometime!

• log4j by the Apache Foundation (http://logging.apache.org/log4j/) licensed under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0
• Restlet - REST framework (http://www.restlet.org/) - "Restlet" is a registered trademark of Restlet S.A.S. licensed under the LGPL license 3.0.
• VorbisSPI - A JavaSound SPI that supports Ogg Vorbis format (http://www.javazoom.net/vorbisspi/vorbisspi.html). The VorbisSPI package is licensed under LGPL. It is based on JOrbis Java libraries (http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/) which are also licensed under the LGPL.
• Launch4j - Cross-platform Java executable wrapper. It is licensed under the BSD license and the MIT license. (http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/)
• Flying Saucer - 100% Java XML+CSS layout engine with Swing support, image rendering, strong support for CSS. Flying Saucer is licensed under the GNU LGPL. (http://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer/)
• SVG Salamander (https://svgsalamander.java.net/) is an SVG engine for Java. It is available both under the LGPL and BSD licenses.
• JInput - Library for access to input devices. Licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License. (http://java.net/projects/jinput)
• Hazelcast - Hazelcast (http://hazelcast.org/) is a clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform for Java. Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
• SQLite (http://sqlite.org/) is a software library that implements a self- contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is in the public domain. No claim of ownership is made to any part of the code.
• LCDMono Font Family Copyright © 1999 by Samuel Reynolds licensed under the STANDARD FONT LICENSE. (http://www.spinwardstars.com/scrfonts/)
• Linux Biolinum Font by Libertine Open Fonts Project (http://www.linuxlibertine.org). Licensed under the Open Font License.
• SFX sounds applause.ogg and lose.ogg by the Frozen Bubble Project (http://www.frozen-bubble.org/)
• SFX sounds from freesound: sound hammer.wav by cmusounddesign (http://www.freesound.org/people/cmusounddesign/sounds/84696/) and sound whoosh.wav by petenice (http://www.freesound.org/people/petenice/sounds/9509/)
• Numerous clipart from opencliparts.org: http://openclipart.org/detail/22436/tools-by-nicubunu http://openclipart.org/detail/3297/pencil-by-barretr http://openclipart.org/detail/10760/statistics-by-hawk88-10760 http://openclipart.org/detail/1943/multicolor-power-buttons-by-molumen http://openclipart.org/detail/10762/personal-information-by-hawk88 http://openclipart.org/detail/171055/normal-distn-shaded-outside-1s-by-oderwald-171055 http://openclipart.org/detail/153577/stopwatch-by-rob-fenwitch http://openclipart.org/detail/73717/community-button-by-laser_engravers http://openclipart.org/detail/19803/checkmark_on_circle-by-andrea_s http://openclipart.org/detail/27549/keyboard-keys-by-simanek http://openclipart.org/detail/172012/award-by-gnokii-172012