Monday, 26 January 2026

Lavaloid

Today's GAPP is a Tapa with a slightly more advanced logical theme. Do check out previous features of the genre if you're not familiar. If you're stuck, check out the GAPP 101.

Previous standard Tapa by Walker: Archive: Monday, 5 May 2025

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.

GAPP 101: There are some points during the solve where a group of shaded cells must take one of two paths to connect to the rest of the grid. If you can prove that taking one of these paths break the puzzle (such as by violating a clue), then the other path must be taken.

Finish the puzzle in 2:10 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 4:20 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Tapa Tapajos Antpitta 🐦!

Example (puzz.link) by Eric Fox: https://tinyurl.com/3e68574j
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/3z64fzdx