Tuesday, 25 April 2023

Freddie Hand

Today's puzzle is a Tapa (Aesthetic)! Standard Tapa rules, the various borders scattered around the grid are for decorative purposes only!

Actually, it's the opposite of that. And no, I'm not thinking of Tapa (Ugly). Today's puzzle is a Tapa (Borders)!

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 region is entirely shaded. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue.

Variant: A pair of cells separated by a bold border must contain one shaded cell and one unshaded cell.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 7:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Frontier Foveaux Shag 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/4u6mrdw3
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2p9hdrbm