Why do I keep getting baited into these foddian esque games? Looks fun, plays fun, ultimately incredibly infuriating. Mad because bad.

Expert mode is chump change.
Excellent comment that really sums up my experience.
"Still a little annoyed at Pictopix handles difficulty. To get all the points you have to turn off auto-marking completed clues. Auto-marking completed clues is a convenience thing, not a difficulty thing! Making you do it manually doesn't add difficulty, it just adds awful make-work!

Picross is all about filling in spaces, and yet I can't fill in all those difficulty crowns because of that stupid decision...*grumble*"

What happens if you combine Oblivion's Whodunit, parties and rng? Well, you get Party Hard where you have to asassinate everyone at a party before you get caught.