Nuritapa
(Published on 20. October 2022, 08:36 by Niverio)
Rules:
- This puzzle is a Nurikabe + Tapa hybrid. In the end grid, the white fields of the Tapa are identical with those of the Nurikabe, and every island contains exactly one Nurikabe clue. The end grid must also satisfy both a classic Nurikabe puzzle, and a classic Tapa puzzle.
- ALL clues in the grid are BOTH valid Nurikabe and valid Tapa clues. If an island's tapa clue has multiple ?s, all the involved ?s must be the same digit, and that digit is also the size of the island. (NOT the sum of the digits!)
- A ? can be any number.
If you are unfamiliar with the standard rules of either genre, you can find them here:
Nurikabe
Tapa
You can solve the puzzle in Penpa+. Answer check is enabled for Light Gray shading of the walls, and Green shading of the islands/tapas.
Solution code: The length of the shaded (wall) segments of the first row, followed by the last row, followed by Column 5. (All left to right and top to bottom)
Comments
on 19. September 2023, 09:00 by Playmaker6174
Plenty of fun and surprises throughout, thanks for the puzzle! :)
on 12. June 2023, 15:46 by Niku
I loved it! Intriguing concept and a wonderful, logical solution path. The clues being all "?" is intimidating at first but quickly leads to interesting deductions. Thank you for the puzzle!
on 23. February 2023, 01:08 by wooferzfg
Fun puzzle, thanks
on 1. January 2023, 15:28 by Christounet
What an excellent combination !
Couldn't resist but put a few pencil marks in the corners of the clues for the candidates, but definitely removed them one by one to get the intended clean digitless completed puzzle in the end !
on 6. November 2022, 06:19 by Phistomefel
A very enjoyable puzzle! Thanks a lot for constructing it, Niverio! :)
on 3. November 2022, 20:23 by zetamath
I loved this one!
on 22. October 2022, 20:26 by ONeill
My first Tapa puzzle, I really enjoyed it. Thanks!
on 22. October 2022, 16:01 by grkles
i think this puzzle needs more numbers
on 21. October 2022, 16:47 by MagnusJosefsson
Very nice fun and enjoyable puzzle! The combination of Nurikabe and Tapa felt surprisingly natural.
on 21. October 2022, 14:59 by Agent
Wonderful combo of puzzle genres! Very rich and surprising deductions.
on 20. October 2022, 17:56 by KNT
very fun variant, always refreshing to do a pure shading puzzle!
on 20. October 2022, 14:20 by Wessel Strijkstra
Agree with polar, numbers shouldn't be in puzzles tbh. Very nice puzzle, it didn't give away this was your first non-number placement puzzle, so let's just all emphasize that in the comments. Enjoyed it greatly, thanks :D
on 20. October 2022, 14:02 by Jesper
A lovely non-number placement puzzle! Well done extending your normal setting range :)
on 20. October 2022, 09:55 by polar
Numbers are def over-rated anyway ;)
Joking aside, really fun & approachable puzzle thanks!
on 20. October 2022, 08:37 by jovi_al
Very nice for your first go at this! Looking forward to seeing more :)
