ArDeeJ
chaotic_iak
ash
David Millar
krazydad
meanderlawn
Daniël Muilwijk
David Nacin
reesylou
rishipuri
Whit McMahanUnique Clues Tapa
Welp. I was going to call this one Mystery Tapa but then I saw GMPuzzles’ Sunday Surprise posted yesterday. What a coincidence. I started making this one last Thursday, before knowing anything about any upcoming Sunday Surprises anywhere.
Rules:
- Regular Tapa rules apply.
- Question marks represent nonzero integers.
- Asterisks are wildcards: they represent a nonzero amount of question marks.
- No clue may appear multiple times, hence the name.
Gah, this puzzle took a lot of wrangling to make it work. I gave up on having a symmetric clue pattern.
Very nice puzzle !
Very nice puzzle ArDeej !
At first glance I thought that the asterisks were merely ‘fillers’, only stating that those cells cannot be filled (and that at least 1 neighbour should be filled), but they play (of course) play a much bigger role.
Those asterisks combined with the unique clue rule set up a lot of interesting deductions !