Puzzle No 167: Regional Necklace Tapa Loop

This Puzzle was created during the speed setting contest over Cracking The Cryptic discord server within a time limit of 60 + (30 extended) min.

The goal was to add our own rules to the pre-defined ruleset (Necklace Rules) and create a puzzle within the time limit. Almost at the end had a unique-ness issue and had to place an unsymmetric clue to resolve it but overall happy with the puzzle.

Rules:

Necklace Rules:

1) Shade some cells in the grid such that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected region, and no 2x2 region is completely shaded.

2) Draw an orthogonally connected, nonintersecting loop through some cells in the grid such that the loop path alternates between shaded and unshaded cells (i.e. before and after every shaded cell on the loop is an unshaded cell and vice versa).

Additional Rules:

3) Number of turns in each region must be the same and is to be determined by the solver.

4) Loop can pass through Number cells but Numbers cannot be Shaded.

5) Number clues are regular Tapa clues.

6) Loop must pass through given circles.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle: 

Puzzle No 151: Regional Loop

The last puzzle of the weekly series of Regional Loop puzzles (this type is invented by me). 

You can also find the entire series online at the Puzsq website here.

Rules:

Draw a non-crossing, non-intersecting closed loop passing through centers of the cells. Loop passes through straight through circles and all circles must be visited. Every region the loop visits, not necessarily all, the region must contain 'X' turns. 'X' to be determined by the solver.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 150: Regional Loop

Puzzle 6 of the weekly series of Regional Loop puzzles (this type is invented by me). 

You can also find the entire series online at the Puzsq website here.

Rules:

Draw a non-crossing, non-intersecting closed loop passing through centers of the cells. Loop passes through straight through circles and all circles must be visited. Every region the loop visits, not necessarily all, the region must contain 'X' turns. 'X' to be determined by the solver.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 149: Regional Loop

Puzzle 5 of the weekly series of Regional Loop puzzles (this type is invented by me). 

You can also find the entire series online at the Puzsq website here.

Rules:

Draw a non-crossing, non-intersecting closed loop passing through centers of the cells. Loop passes through straight through circles and all circles must be visited. Every region the loop visits, not necessarily all, the region must contain 'X' turns. 'X' to be determined by the solver.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 148: Regional Loop

Puzzle 4 of the weekly series of Regional Loop puzzles (this type is invented by me). 

You can also find the entire series online at the Puzsq website here.

Rules:

Draw a non-crossing, non-intersecting closed loop passing through centers of the cells. Loop passes through straight through circles and all circles must be visited. Every region the loop visits, not necessarily all, the region must contain 'X' turns. 'X' to be determined by the solver.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 147: Regional Loop

Puzzle 3 of the weekly series of Regional Loop puzzles (this type is invented by me). 

You can also find the entire series online at the Puzsq website here.

Rules:

Draw a non-crossing, non-intersecting closed loop passing through centers of the cells. Loop passes through straight through circles and all circles must be visited. Every region the loop visits, not necessarily all, the region must contain 'X' turns. 'X' to be determined by the solver.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 146: Regional Loop

Puzzle 2 of the weekly series of Regional Loop puzzles (this type is invented by me). 

You can also find the entire series online at the Puzsq website here.

Rules:

Draw a non-crossing, non-intersecting closed loop passing through centers of the cells. Loop passes through straight through circles and all circles must be visited. Every region the loop visits, not necessarily all, the region must contain 'X' turns. 'X' to be determined by the solver.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 145: Regional Loop

I decided to post all my puzzles which I shared on the Discord Server to the blog for easy records.

I did a weekly series of Regional Loop puzzles (this type is invented by me). So the next few posts will be this genre.

You can also find the entire series online here.

Rules:

Draw a non-crossing, non-intersecting closed loop passing through centers of the cells. Loop passes through straight through circles and all circles must be visited. Every region the loop visits, not necessarily all, the region must contain 'X' turns. 'X' to be determined by the solver.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle: