Wednesday, 15 July 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 me: Archive: Monday, 26 January 2026

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: Clues with all 1s form invisible "walls" around the clue that if crossed would require the clue to have a 2. See the spoilered image for example. Look out for places where this interacts with the connectivity rule!

Finish the puzzle in 1:30 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 3:30 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/nhd58wv3