Tapa Set (Logic Puzzles 45-67)
Here are a bunch of Tapas🥘. Big thanks to Barbitos, Menderbug, CJK, Wessel Strijkstra, and TwoHoleStraw for testsolving!
Tapa
Shade some cells on the board.
- You cannot shade a cell with a number.
- Numbers represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutively shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue. Numbers are not necessarily in order.
- A question mark can be replaced by any positive number (meaning strictly greater than zero).
- The shaded cells cannot form a 2x2 square.
- All shaded cells form an orthogonally contiguous area.
Tapa (Aqre)
Normal Tapa rules apply. Additionally, there cannot be a line of four shaded cells nor a line of four unshaded cells in a row. Clued cells count as unshaded.
Tapa (No Squares)
Normal Tapa rules apply. Additionally, no unshaded cells can form a 2x2 square. Clued number cells count as unshaded.
Tapa (Islands)
Normal Tapa rules apply. Additionally, each number must be part of an “island”, which is a group of orthogonally unshaded cells. The area of the island must be one of the numbers in the clue (for example, in an island with a (2,4) clue, the island containing that clue must be either 2 cells or 4 cells large). No island can contain more than one clue cell, but there may be islands without any number clues.
Note: In a question mark clue, the true number must be the same when considering Tapa and Islands rules. That is, if a question mark represents a “5” when considering Tapa rules, the question mark must be in an island of area 5.