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The other day my good friend Captain Pun invited me to a party on board his new boat.

"What will the dress code be?" I asked.

Captain Pun said he'd email me the details. Later that day I received the following image in my inbox:

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The accompanying message said only: "Solve the nonogram, then come dressed accordingly!"

Can you solve the three-colour nonogram to help me work out what I should wear to the party?

This puzzle can be solved without guessing. Note that cells filled with different colours do not necessarily need to have a gap between them. Numbers marked in bold are black, numbers in (circles) are (red), and those in normal weight are grey.

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Completed nonogram grid:

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This is (thanks @msh210 !)

a Cluedo board,

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and

the heart is in the LOUNGE,

so the dress code must be

LOUNGE SUIT.

Edited to add:

the puzzle is even more clever than I'd realised. The heart isn't just an arbitrary symbol: it represents one of the SUITS in card games. So both the words "lounge" and "suit" are clued (no pun intended) in the image!

Rand al'Thor
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  • rot13(Pbzr qerffrq jvgu lbhe urneg va gur evtug cynpr?) - alternatively, there are rot13(9 juvgr frpgvbaf, fb "Pbzr qerffrq gb gur 9?") – Avi Dec 11 '19 at 18:30
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    Looks like it might (I'd have to check) be a Clue board. If so, presumably it's a play on the name of whatever room that is. – msh210 Dec 11 '19 at 18:38
  • @msh210 You're right - that's the rot13(Ybhatr). – Avi Dec 11 '19 at 18:42
  • @msh210 Ahhh, wow, that makes perfect sense! Thank you! I knew that pattern, especially the middle part, was ringing a bell somewhere. – Rand al'Thor Dec 11 '19 at 18:42
  • Would've been funny if rot13(gur oebxra jvaqbj-ybbxvat fghss + gur urneg jnf "oernx zl urneg") – Avi Dec 11 '19 at 18:43
  • I spotted a few missing blanks in your completed nonogram. Your 25th row (next to bottom) is missing the 'inner' black 1s. – Somebody Dec 11 '19 at 18:44
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    Also: Here is an image with the correct rotation so it matches the nonogram:

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/76/a2/4f/76a24fda5952a89008dcb15ae71df4ef.jpg

     – Somebody Dec 11 '19 at 18:45
  • @Somebody How could I miss that? Those are literally the easiest ones to fill! To your second comment: I thought I'd leave a mental pi-radian rotation as an exercise for the reader :-) – Rand al'Thor Dec 11 '19 at 18:46
  • lol yep! I finished the nonogram and went to check yours and that's the only difference I noticed! – Somebody Dec 11 '19 at 18:46
  • @Somebody Aww, you did all that work to finish it and still got ninja'd to posting an answer? :-( – Rand al'Thor Dec 11 '19 at 18:47
  • nah I was a good 8-10 minutes behind. I grabbed the nonogram before you answered but you probably posted right after I saw the post so you're good! – Somebody Dec 11 '19 at 18:52
  • TIL that Clue is called "Cluedo" in areas outside of North America – Quintec Dec 11 '19 at 19:58
  • @Quintec It's called Clue over there? I'd assumed msh210's comment was typoed! – Rand al'Thor Dec 11 '19 at 20:06
  • @Randal'Thor and I thought your answer was typoed until I looked it up! :P – Quintec Dec 11 '19 at 20:11
  • Hooray, all correct - well done! +1 and the green checkmark incoming :) – Stiv Dec 11 '19 at 20:13
  • Although it will be obvious to most, any chance you could just rot13(oevrsyl zragvba gur yvax orgjrra URNEG naq FHVG) - for some it may not be immediately apparent! Thanks :) – Stiv Dec 11 '19 at 22:48
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    @Stiv Oooh, that wasn't apparent even to me! I thought that shape was just meant to indicate the important spot. – Rand al'Thor Dec 12 '19 at 08:43