Another compilation of shading puzzles. I included a scraped tapa plus 3 puzzles for this post : Tapa, Heyawake and Kurohappo (rules can be found on the "help" tab on puzz.link or the "rules" tab on kudamono). Hope these are fun (I recommend doing the Kurohappo).
Thanks to Mender and Rook for testing and feedback on the Kurohappo.
Tapa 1 - Tapa 2 - Heyawake - Kurohappo (penpa+)
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
Here is a dump of shading puzzles. There are 2 easier puzzles, and 3 you may find very hard (at least calls for heavy knowledge or being accustomed to the genre). The Nurikabe feels especially unfair but I can manage to solve it without too much trial and error (global vision will require to see how regions interact, though). The Heyawake may also leave you stuck at a certain point, and even starting it may be hard : I recommend checking out Teal's guide on solving Heyawakes.
Statue Park (pentominos) (easy to medium)
Tapa (easy to medium)
Aqre (medium to hard)
Heyawake (hard)
Nurikabe (warning : hard, may be unfair)
