Friday, 8 November 2024

bakpao

We haven't had a "We haven't had a "we haven't had an X in a while" intro in a while" intro in a while.

We haven't had a Tapa variant in a while.

Actually, that's a lie - I just recently did Tapa (Palindrome). What can I say? When inspiration is low, variant tapa never lets me down.

Today's puzzle is a Tapa (Aqre)!

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. There may not exist a run of more than three consecutive shaded or unshaded cells horizontally or vertically anywhere in the grid. Note that clued cells also count as unshaded cells!

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 Top Tūī 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/299quatr
Main (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2xznq75t