Saturday, 29 April 2023

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Today is Saturday, but today's puzzle isn't supersized! That's because tomorrow we wanted to do something a little bit special to round off the fantastic Tapa Week we've had! I hope you all have had fun exploring the wonderful variants that Tapa has to offer-- truly it is a canvas with infinite potential!

Today's puzzle is no different-- it's a Hungarian Tapa! Stick around to the end for a GAPP 101 that you might find particularly helpful!

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and place a number from 1-N into each shaded cell so that each row and column contains every number from that range with no repeats, where N is the number given outside the grid. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the sums of the numbers in the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue, with one clue per block.

As always, there is an example puzzle and its solution attached with the image of today's puzzle. Solve that here, if you wish (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2pj9rty4

To earn yourself a Speedy Sloth solve the last main puzzle of Tapa Week in 7:00 or less!
To net yourself a Quick Crab 🦀 solve today's puzzle in 17:30 or less!
All other solvers are well-deserving of a Tapa Week Temminck 🐦!

Solve today's puzzle here (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26zvvwws

GAPP 101: Since all rows and columns need to have four shaded cells, as soon as you have three unshadeds in a single row or column in the main puzzle, you can shade the rest of them! This works with the example two, with two unshadeds, of course.