Tuesday, 24 September 2024

bakpao

I found some inspiration in last year's tapa week! We love slapping variants onto tapa puzzles, and I noticed to date we've never used the palindrome variation for any GAPP puzzle, so today we combine the two. This particular combination was also the prompt for a speedsetting session back in 2021, so if you want to dive into it a bit deeper, feel free to check out those puzzles as well here! Discord message

Today's puzzle is a Tapa (Palindrome)!

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. The Xth cell from one direction of a line and the Xth cell from the other direction of that line must both be shaded or both be unshaded.

Previous vanilla Tapa: Archive: Tuesday, 7 November 2023
First post of Tapa variant week: Archive: Monday, 24 April 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 6:00 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Liar Rail 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/249qc5n5
Main (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/29zqgyfv