Sunday, 5 February 2023

"Wild Bill" Murphy (patreon?)

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Today’s GAPP is a Tapa (Unknowns)!

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) eight cells surrounding the clue. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Variant: All numbers in clues have been replaced with ?s. A ? can be any number greater than 0.

An example puzzle and its solution are attached to the image of today's puzzle. Solve the example here if you wish: https://tinyurl.com/2pdxg879

Jovi’s previous unknowns Tapa is here: Archive: Sunday, 11 September 2022

To earn yourself a Speedy Sloth, solve the puzzle in 2:00 or less! To net yourself a Quick Crab 🦀 solve the puzzle in 4:00 or less! All other solvers are well-deserving of an Unknowable Unspotted Saw-Whet Owl 🐦

Solve today's puzzle here (Puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/fr53jwad