This is a Melon puzzle. (1 – Tapa)

Tapa by Palmer Mebane

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or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to shift between shading mode and the composite Yajilin mode where left click marks cells, right click marks dots in cells or X’s on edges, left click+drag draws lines.)

Theme: MM

Rules: Standard Tapa rules.

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the shaded segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry from the next with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:00, Master = 2:45, Expert = 5:30

Solution: PDF

Editor’s Note: It is with great pleasure that we add Palmer Mebane to our list of Contributing Puzzlemasters this week with a set of rather interesting and challenging puzzles. One of the top puzzle solvers in the world (the current US Puzzle Champion and a past World Puzzle Champion), Palmer is also a phenomenal puzzle designer as anyone who has followed his puzzles in the past should know.

  • Scott Handelman says:

    Bah, missed out on Master time by 5 seconds. Glad to see Palmer enter the fold.

  • JuffoWup says:

    Very nice puzzle, doubly so as it had me briefly fooled into thinking it was unsolvable! Welcome Palmer; I’ve massively missed Melon’s marvelous mindbenders!

  • James McGowan says:

    Welcome Palmer! A great start.
    I suspect if you’d been a test-solver for this one there’d be a Grandmaster time more like 1:30.

  • tamz29 says:

    1:41 on paint

    I like how the path is “buried” at the bottom and had to resurface from the bottom left.

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