Broken Sign Blog
#046: Tapa Rope
14 October 2022I hosted the most recent Logic Showcase on Puzzlers Club and challenged people to construct puzzles which involved paths or loops as clues. There were a bunch of interesting entries, but I’m particularly intrigued by the showcase’s winner, DireKrow’s Tapa Rope. I’ll be exploring a few generalisations of the ruleset, but before we get into that, here’s an introductory vanilla puzzle.
Solve it online:
Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells along the length of rope attached to the clue, not necessarily in order. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.