Dr. Sudoku Prescribes #37 – Tapa
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’s on edges, left click+drag draws lines.)
Theme: A little of everything — clues from 1 to 8 exist in value-mirrored (9-x) symmetric locations throughout the middle of the grid.
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 Standard: Tapa Grandmaster = 0:45, Master = 1:15, Expert = 2:30
Solution: PDF
1:07, so barely master
About 1:10. I was able to introduce some of my fellow math teachers to the puzzle at lunch today…we’ve done a workshop on teaching Yajilin to high schoolers in Geometry to foster logical deduction skills, which was the entry for most of them into logic puzzles beyond Sudoku.
5 mins
2,4,8,9?
Close, but not fully correct. When a row has multiple shaded groups, you should enter them separately. One of your later rows is incorrect.