Tapa by Tapio Saarinen
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Theme: Antisymmetry
Author/Opus: This is the 8th puzzle from guest contributor Tapio Saarinen. You can find more of Tapio’s puzzles on his blog.
Rules: Standard Tapa rules.
Answer String: 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’s entry from the next with a comma.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:30, Master = 3:30, Expert = 7:00
Solution: PDF
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This is an awesome puzzle. I enjoyed solving.
Very nice. Obviously the visual theme with the 1’s and 2’s swapping roles is elegant, but the solve was also particularly interesting.
Agreed, this was thoroughly enjoyable. There was a good portion of the solve where I was drawing a long, snake-like section of the Tapa almost without lifting my pencil. That was particularly staisfying.
Yep, the left part is awesome.
I struggled a bit in the lower right part and dropped past 10 minutes …
03:10.
Nice construction with pretty interesting solve as well.
The lower right quadrant of the puzzle was hardest to solve.A tough and nice puzzle.17:01