Sunday, 5 June 2022

Freddie Hand

You'e heard of Supersized Saturday... Now it's time for Strange-shaped Sunday! (And no, I have not been accepting bribes from BenceJoful). Today's Tapa (Hexagonal) puts a spanner in the works, with 6 cells around each clue instead of 8, and a pattern of 3 shaded cells being banned instead of 4.

Disclaimer: Strange-shaped Sunday is not a thing.

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) six cells surrounding the clue. No three shaded cells may meet at a vertex (i.e. any 'triangle' of 3 cells cannot be entirely shaded).

Places where the ruleset differs from that of standard Tapa are indicated in bold.

If this is the first time you are seeing Tapa, you may find it helpful to try the classic (non-variant) appearance of this genre in GAPP: Archive: Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2dqarynq

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:45 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Dihedral Dimorphic Egret 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/24qgq8b3