Thursday, 27 April 2023

bakpao

Tomorrow is a big day! It's when I leave for the big city of Budapest to participate in 24HPC for the first time, a big 24 hour puzzle marathon taking place over the weekend. I'm filled with excitement, but also dread as there is a very big chance I'll fall asleep at my desk at some point. In any case, wish me luck!

Today's GAPP is a Tapa (Big Clues)!
This is vanilla tapa, except the clues affect larger areas.

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 all of the cells which touch the clue orthogonally or diagonally. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

Example (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2cxp8nnn
Puzzle (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2dya5hu6

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve in 3:15 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀 solve in 6:30 or less!
And all who finish get a Big Bateleur 🐦!

We also had a speedsetting session on this very variant over a year ago. If you want to see more of these, check out https://discord.com/channels/709370620642852885/843561196308791296/929474541640638574!