Editing Mario's Picross

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'''''Mario's Picross''''' is a [[Genre#Puzzle games|puzzle game]] for the [[Game Boy]] developed by [[Jupiter]] and the first game in the [[Nintendo]]-published [[nwiki:Picross series|''Picross'' series]]. It was released in 1995 and stars [[Mario]], who appears in the role of an archaeologist. ''Mario's Picross'' is based on paint-by-number puzzles known as {{wp|nonogram}}s. Several sequels have been released since then, most of which are Japan-only games.

==Gameplay==

[[File:Mario's Picross puzzle.png|frame|left|A 15x15 square puzzle.]]

For example, a "5" means that the player has to scrape five consecutive squares in the respective line. If there is more than one number, then there has to be at least one blank square between the scraped areas. For instance, "4 6 2" means that four consecutive squares have to be scraped in the line, followed by at least one blank square. After the blank space(s), the player has to scrape an area of six squares. Again, there has to be at least one blank square between this area and the last two consecutive squares that have to be scraped. If the player is sure that a square doesn't have to be scraped, e.g. when a blank square is needed or all required squares in a line have been scraped, they can mark it with an "X".

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==Modes==

*Easy Picross (for beginners)

*Picross (split into two courses)

**Star Course (unlocked after completing Kinoko Course)

*Time Trial (unlocked after completing Star Course)

The first two modes, where the puzzles can be played in any order, follow the same rules. Before playing the game, the player can decide to get a hint, which means that the correct squares of a row and a column are already scraped when starting the puzzle. A roulette the player has to stop defines which lines are revealed, which can make a puzzle easier to solve, though it is possible to solve them all without using hints. Each puzzle has a time limit of 30 minutes. Marking squares with an "X" that should be scraped incurs no penalty, but scraping squares that should not be scraped reduces the time limit. The first mistake costs two minutes, the second one four minutes, and any others eight minutes each, meaning that a maximum of five mistakes can be made. If time runs out before the player has revealed the picture, the game is over. For each puzzle, the first and best times are saved, with an "H" to the left of the time if a hint was used to solve a puzzle.

===Time Trial===

The last mode known as Time Trial comes with different rules. The player does not get a hint at the beginning, and the game does not note wrongly-scraped squares, so the player does not know whether a mistake has been made. The 64 puzzles appear randomly; the player is not able to select a specific puzzle. This random selection is guaranteed to show the player a puzzle they have not yet solved, until all 64 possible puzzles have been solved once.

The default entries on the score board are the following:

==Levels==

The puzzles in the game's first three courses are stored in order in the game's memory; this pattern has been used to determine the "order" of the Time Trial puzzles.

===Easy Picross===

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*6C - Cocktail

*7B - Wine Glass

'''Kinoko Course'''

*2A - Shogi Piece

*6H - Beer Mug

*7F - Folding Fan

'''Star Course'''

*6H - Niō's Face

'''Time Trial'''

*1H - Pellet Drum

==Names in other lnguages==

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*The letters in the solutions of the first eight puzzles in 'Easy Picross' spell "LETS WORK."

*Star course 6-G is titled "Mud" in the English localization, despite portraying what appears to be a snail with an elongated shell. In the Japanese version, this puzzle is named タニシ, which is a family of freshwater snails called {{wp|Viviparidae}}. It is possible that the intended localization was "Mud Snail", as the puzzle does bear a resemblance to the {{wp|New Zealand mud snail}}.

*[https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Game-Boy/Mario-s-Picross-275704.html Official British English web page]

*[https://www.jupiter.co.jp/e/product/game/gb/picross.php Official Jupiter website] (English/Japanese)

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