Broken Sign Blog
#048: Tapa Rope (Multiple Ropes)
16 October 2022We’re now straying a little further from vanilla Tapa Rope, but this is probably the variant I’m most excited about. The extra flexibility from having multiple ropes per clue adds a lot of logical expressiveness to the genre, as hopefully shown by this puzzle.
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.
Variant: Multiple Ropes — If multiple ropes are attached to a clue, the clued blocks of shaded cells can be distributed among these ropes in any way (including some ropes having no shaded cells at all).
Crossing — Ropes can intersect each other and themselves but do not turn at the intersection.