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Cover Up (Tapa Sudoku)

(Eingestellt am 3. April 2025, 06:00 Uhr von tallcat)

The Caterdokupillar (curated by Memeristor) has been a great source of potential ideas for puzzles - and I have been slowly working my way through it. This puzzle was inspired by DiMono's effort (number 25 in the Caterdokupillar ) which combines Tapa and sudoku in fun ways. Of course, while it sounds simple at face value, it was much harder than anticipated to set and took a while to wrestle into shape. Still, I am happy with the final result! Happy solving!

Normal sudoku rules apply.

Tapa: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 is entirely shaded. Circled cells cannot be shaded and contain a digit indicating the length of the one (and only) connected group of shaded cells in its up to 8 surrounding cells. If adjacent cells are either both shaded or both unshaded they may not contain consecutive digits.

Shaded sums: Clues outside the grid indicate the sum of digits in shaded cells in its row or column.




Can be played online at f-puzzles or Sudokupad (answer check)

Lösungscode: The shaded cells in row 6 (left to right) and column 5 (top to bottom)

Zuletzt geändert am 4. April 2025, 05:32 Uhr

Gelöst von Calesch, Snookerfan, Dentones, Titus Adduxas, MonsieurTRISTE, steeto, tuturitu, zlotnleo, blueberrypug, mihel111, Azumagao, Franjo, Jesper, SirWoezel, Chefofdeath, Frutlop, Voidslime, Paletron, ... karlmortenlunna, harryb, dunder, y00j1n, nordloc, abed hawila, FlowJo, Silverbyte, feverlute, jkuo7, Taeqle, SKORP17, OGRussHood, h5663454, Uhu, dogfarts, Malrog, widjo, Christounet, isajo4002
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am 15. Juni 2025, 02:31 Uhr von Malrog
Great fun solve, lots to enjoy here.

Zuletzt geändert am 4. April 2025, 10:59 Uhr

am 4. April 2025, 10:58 Uhr von mse326
I just finished. Loved the puzzle. You may want to update the rules text on Sudokupad. IDK about most people but I tend to just open the puzzle and read the rules in there. And it doesn't have the "one (and only)" text regarding connected cells around circles. That threw me for quite a bit. I checked here after about 30 minutes because talking about connected cells did sound a bit strange so I wanted to make sure and only then did I see the difference.

am 4. April 2025, 02:24 Uhr von Silverscree
This was a lot of fun!

I had the same difficulty with the wording of (single), so I would recommend a wording change to make it clearer! Nonetheless, once I started using that logic the puzzle was very smooth.

am 4. April 2025, 02:03 Uhr von twototenth
Tremendous work, probably my favorite puzzle in quite a while.

am 4. April 2025, 01:30 Uhr von CrypticCoyote
Face melting fantastic

am 3. April 2025, 23:45 Uhr von awwkaw
This was beautiful 8-)

In the beginning, I thought it would be much easier, but it really fooled me.

I particularly liked the "anti white kropki dot" rule. Such interesting logic.

am 3. April 2025, 21:45 Uhr von marcmees
very nice. thanks

am 3. April 2025, 17:09 Uhr von Franjo
Wonderful puzzle! Thank you very much for creating and sharing this masterpiece.

am 3. April 2025, 16:57 Uhr von mihel111
A very pleasant solve path. Very well done.

am 3. April 2025, 11:32 Uhr von Titus Adduxas
I really liked the logic of the rule set, the single set of connected cells in particular. That helped me get started, but although it took me well over 2 hours I always felt I was going to be successful. How on earth you setters can come up with these things is well beyond me but I’m so glad you do! Excellent puzzle.

am 3. April 2025, 09:48 Uhr von Snookerfan
Stunning puzzle! Great ruleset. Some really beautiful steps in the solvepath. Thank you

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