An addictive, well crafted Picross presented by Mario. Ideal for long reflection sessions, especially satisfying to complete.
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Category
Puzzle1 player3+
Description
Picross puzzle in which the player reveals hidden images by filling numbered grids. Published by Nintendo, released in Japan in 1995. Grids with numbers indicating cells to fill, Mario and Wario modes with distinct rules and progressive difficulty. Original Japanese version of Nintendo's picross on Super Famicom.
Mario no Super Picross review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
1/5
Story
★★★★★
"Anecdotal"
Everything serves the grid: a crisp mesh, perfectly legible numbers, a cursor that never hides the cell beneath it. Nintendo simply adds Mario and Wario as small guides at the edges, each with their own expressions, and saves colour for the picture revealed at the end of a puzzle, the game's only visual reward.
The score is built to run through long minutes of thinking without ever weighing: light keyboard toned melodies, simple harmonies, moderate tempo. Nintendo takes care to leave breathing space between phrases, and the very short success jingles become the only moment when the music allows itself to show off.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Deducing the grid square by square, sensing the image emerge and validating a line without error delivers a quiet but very compelling satisfaction. The puzzles chain in tiers, each solution calls for the next and the timer adds just the right touch of tension. Pure, timeless logic, this Picross holds you far longer than you'd expect.
Difficulty
"Easy"
Lifespan
"Massive"
Lining up hundreds of grids to solve, from gentle warm-ups to fiendish brain-twisters, guarantees a near-bottomless well of puzzles where each filled square reveals a hidden picture. The Mario and Wario modes impose distinct rules that double the offering, and the rising difficulty extends the challenge for anyone chasing flawless runs. This Nintendo picross owes its longevity to that pile of grids you keep coming back to, a puzzle to savor in sessions.
Technical info
💾0,38 MB📅14/09/1995
Published by Nintendo
Mario no Super Picross (SNES) price, value & rarity
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
Q1 damagedQ6 completeQ10 new
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Collector interest
The Japanese Super Famicom version of Nintendo's Mario's Super Picross from 1995, Japan-exclusive on original cartridge under this name (the PAL version arrived only in 1995). The Japanese cart is culturally important because it preserves the Wario mode unprecedented in the Picross line. Intact boxed CIB with cardboard sleeve and illustrated Nintendo manual is valued by niche Nintendo SFC collectors, and the cote climbs steadily, sustained by the stature gained by the Picross genre post-3DS.
Is Mario no Super Picross still worth playing in 2026?
Mario no Super Picross, known as Mario's Super Picross in the West, is one of the best nonogram puzzlers ever produced, namely the grid challenge where each line gradually reveals a silhouette. The cartridge ships with Mario's classic grids and a more devious Wario mode. The d-pad handling stays precise and the replay value is essentially endless for puzzle lovers. Recommended to anyone fond of meditative puzzling and a challenge to savor one grid at a time.
