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 164: Tapa Palindrome

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

Rules:

Shade some empty cells black to create a single connected wall. Numbers in a cell indicate the length of consecutive shaded blocks in the neighboring cells. If there is more than one number in a cell, then there must be at least one white (unshaded) cell between the black cell groups. Cells with numbers cannot be shaded, and the shaded cells cannot form a 2×2 square anywhere in the grid.

Additionally, the grey lines must be palindrome in terms of shaded/unshaded cells. 

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle: 

Puzzle No 156: Tapa

This is a Tapa puzzle created during a collaborative fun event over Cracking The Cryptic discord server. Each author would place one clue during their turn. It was really fun to collaborate with other puzzlers and we hope you enjoy solving this one.

Authors: Myself, Priyam Bhushan, Prasanna Seshadri, Eric Fox, Murat Can Tonta, Gliperal, Botaku, Shye

Rules:

Shade some empty cells black to create a single connected wall. Numbers in a cell indicate the length of consecutive shaded blocks in the neighboring cells. If there is more than one number in a cell, then there must be at least one white (unshaded) cell between the black cell groups. Cells with numbers cannot be shaded, and the shaded cells cannot form a 2×2 square anywhere in the grid.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzzle: 

Puzzle No 85 TAPA

With Classic Tapa Contest on the verge of ending i thought of making one Tapa myself to give it an finishing touch. I believe i performed well as compared to last year but still have to improve a lot. So will be waiting for CTC 2014 eagerly. :)

Rules:

Color some cells to create a single contiguous shape. The shape can't have any 2 by 2 colored areas. The clues in the grid tell you how many consecutive cells around it have to be colored. If there's more than one digit in a cell, the groups of cells have to be separated by at least one empty cell. Cells with clues remain empty.

Click Here for Example.

Difficulty : Easy

Puzzle:

Puzzle No 64 (Tapa)

Description :-
As lack of time, TAPA (Click on name for rules) is the puzzle that can be created fast. :p
I was creating this on my notebook page, suddenly found there is no space left at bottom to complete 10*10 square. So made this puzzle of rectangle. Njoy!! :)
Difficulty :- Easy!!
Puzzle :-

Unique Solution :- Click here.

Puzzle No 51 (TAPA)

Description :- 

This is again First timer on my blog. It is TAPA puzzle. Click on the name for rules. Apart from Classic tapa there are many variations in TAPA. As the time goes on i will introduce you to the other variations.

Difficulty : - Easy-ish!!

Puzzle :-

Unique Solution :-  Click here