{"id":5231,"date":"2015-09-05T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2022-01-24T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T22:15:10","slug":"tapa-fill-in-by-prasanna-seshadri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/tapa-fill-in-by-prasanna-seshadri\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapa (Fill-In) by Prasanna Seshadri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/150905-TapaFillIn-IPC.png\" alt=\"Tapa (Fill-In) by Prasanna Seshadri\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/150905-TapaFillIn-IPC.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=https:\/\/gmpuzzles.com\/s\/150905IPC>solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to shift between shading mode, a number\/letter entry mode for placing the word list, and the composite Yajilin mode where left click marks cells, right click marks dots in cells or X\u2019s on edges, left click+drag draws lines.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Theme:<\/b> IPC Message (Originally on 2015 Indian Puzzle Championship)<\/p>\n<p><b>Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 96th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rules:<\/b> Standard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tapa-rules-and-info\/\">Tapa<\/a> rules. Also, all of the empty cells will be filled by letters\/numbers so that each word\/number next to the puzzle appears once reading across or down in the grid and no other words are formed in the grid by adjacent letters. Words can cross, but they do not all need to be connected. Some letters (in red) are already given in the grid and will be part of one or more words in the grid.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/150905-TapaFillIn-IPC-Ex.png\" alt=\"Tapa (Fill-In) by Prasanna Seshadri\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Answer String:<\/b> 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&#8217;s entry from the next with a comma.<\/p>\n<p><b>Time Standards (highlight to view):<\/b> <span style=\"color:white;background-color:white;\">Grandmaster = 7:00, Master = 9:15, Expert = 18:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Solution:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/150905-TapaFillIn-IPC-soln.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> Follow this link for other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/tapa-2+variation-2\/\">Tapa variations<\/a> and this link for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/tapa-2+classic\/\">classic Tapa<\/a>. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/tapa-2+classic+mondaytuesday\/>easiest Tapa puzzles<\/a> to get started on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDF or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to shift between shading mode, a number\/letter entry mode for placing the word list, and the composite Yajilin mode where left click marks cells, right click marks dots in cells or X\u2019s on edges, left click+drag draws lines.) 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