Tapa

      Tapa is a shading genre created by Serkan Yürekli and an old favorite of mine (books covered in these puzzles to pass the time in high school). A vast amount of variants were made from this ruleset, I may dabble in setting some of these. Here are the rules :

Shade some cells on the board.

- Cells with numbers cannot be shaded.
- Numbers represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue. Numbers aren't necessarily in order.
- A question mark can be replaced by any positive number (at least 1) (standard rules allow for a single ? to be zero, here it is NOT the case).

- The shaded cells cannot form a 2x2 square.
- All shaded cells form an orthogonally contiguous area.

    3 puzzles, with the last one being quite tricky to start (although the theme should be unsubtle enough). I will probably set larger puzzles posted 1 by 1, as I like to do with Fillomino.

Puzzle 1 - Puzzle 2 - Puzzle 3