Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Freddie Hand

The instructions for the second round of the WPF Puzzle GP are out. Which is a great excuse to make yet another Tapa variation, a Tapa (Neanderthal). Though the naming seems a little unfair considering that even chimps have some sense of numeracy beyond "one" and "many".

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. A plus sign represents a block of more than one shaded cell.

Here's a little GAPP 101 too: For clues like +,+ and 1,1,+ you may want to think about how to fit all the blocks around the clue - in particular, the values of the + clues cannot be too large.

Here's the last classic Tappa in GAPP, by shye: Archive: Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Prehistoric Predicted Antwren 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/22cmfs94
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2yfvrhdk