Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Freddie Hand

3 🦦 bonus otters 🦦 today!! Congrats to @Malrog , @Shogia and @Lorem for correctly guessing today's (base) genre. Are more people catching on? 🤔

Unfortunately, I have developed a terrible phobia of Tapa number mode in Penpa. But that wasn't an issue for this Tapa (Domino).

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 shaded cells must also be able to be divided into dominoes.

Interface Note: the input mode is set to Yajilin (for shading + drawing lines to notate dominoes) - it's currently a bit janky, so you might prefer lineox or just tabbing between shading and line.

Here's the last classic Tapa in GAPP, courtesy of Walker: Archive: Monday, 5 May 2025

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Tapaired 'Apapane 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2dnqefrh
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2d2kz3pm