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No real news this week. I’m moving away from San Francisco, so this week and next will be pretty brief Doctor’s Note-wise.<\/p>\n

This coming week contains Tapa and Sudo-Kurve puzzles. As I’ve never posted a *classic* Tapa puzzle despite writing several, I needed to make a new example worthy for posting tomorrow on the Rules page. This example (about Wednesday difficulty) is a bonus puzzle for today, and there will be three more Tapa puzzles throughout the week.<\/p>\n

\"Tapa<\/p>\n

PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

or solve online<\/a> (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.)<\/p>\n

Theme:<\/b> Quadrants<\/p>\n

Rules:<\/b> Shade some squares black to create a single connected wall. Numbers in a cell indicate the length of consecutive shaded blocks in the neighboring cells. If there is more than one number in a cell, then there must be at least one white (unshaded) cell between the black cell groups. Cells with numbers cannot be shaded, and the shaded cells cannot form a 2×2 square anywhere in the grid.<\/p>\n

Answer String:<\/b> Enter the length of shaded segments, from left to right, in each of the indicated rows. Separate each row’s entry from the next with a comma.<\/p>\n

Time Standard:<\/b> Tapa Grandmaster = 1:00, Master = 2:00, Expert = 4:00<\/p>\n

Solution:<\/b> PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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