{"id":6541,"date":"2017-01-28T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2022-01-24T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:02:23","slug":"tapa-islands-murat-can-tonta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/tapa-islands-murat-can-tonta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapa (Islands) by Murat Can Tonta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/170128-TapaIsland3.png\" alt=\"Tapa (Islands) by Murat Can Tonta\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/170128-TapaIsland3.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=https:\/\/gmpuzzles.com\/s\/170128Isl3>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&#8217;s on edges, left click+drag draws lines.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Theme:<\/b> Clue Symmetry and Logic<\/p>\n<p><b>Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 58th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Murat Can Tonta.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rules:<\/b> Standard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tapa-rules-and-info\/\">Tapa<\/a> rules. Also, similar to <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/nurikabe-rules-and-info\/>Nurikabe<\/a>, each clue cell is part of an island of horizontally and vertically connected white cells. Islands are allowed to touch diagonally. Islands may contain at most one clue cell, and the area of the island must be one of the numbers in the clue (as an example, if a clue is 15, then the island containing that clue must be either 1 cell or 5 cells large).<\/p>\n<p>See also this example:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/150910-TapaIslandsEx.png\" alt=\"Tapa (Islands) by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli\"><\/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 = 5:00, Master = 13:15, Expert = 26:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Solution:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/170128-TapaIsland3-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. More Tapa puzzles can be found in <a href=https:\/\/gmpuzzles.com\/store\/the-art-of-puzzles><i>The Art of Puzzles<\/i><\/a> and in <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/store\/classic-and-variations-series><i>Tapa and Variations<\/i><\/a>, both by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli.<\/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 and the composite Yajilin mode where left click marks cells, right click marks dots in cells or X&#8217;s on edges, left click+drag draws lines.) 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