MellowMelon
- For Wired Tapa, does the 2x2 replacement rule mean that a grid cell can't be surrounded by four edges (i.e. if there were slitherlink clues no 4s would be allowed), or that a dot can't be joined to four edges?

MellowMelon
- Is the roman example in the IB wrong? The IIII on bottom is a single 4, which is not proper roman numerals. On the other hand if you let the IIIII be a 1-4 clue there are many other solutions.

MellowMelon - 2012-03-25 11:02 PM

Your understanding of Roman Tapa is correct assuming it works the same way as it did in a previous TVC (7 or 8?).

Compass Tapa: Every cell with one or more arrows has a path to the cell with the star. If we don't allow any paths that use a cell twice, the arrows tell all possible directions of the first direction the path goes in.

Here's a quick example of a wall where a cell might have more than one arrow.

_XXX
XX_A
_XXX
XB_*

The _ are white cells and everything else is part of the Tapa wall, with the * in R4C4 being the starred cell. If there were arrows in cell A (R2C4), there would be one pointing south (R2C4-R3C4-R4C4) and north (R2C4-R1C4-R1C3-R1C2-R2C2-R3C2-R3C3-R3C4-R4C4). If there were arrows in cell B (R4C2), there would only be one pointing north (R4C2-R3C2-R3C3-R3C4-R4C4). There would NOT be one pointing west because a path that goes in that direction first would have to retrace its steps to reach the *.

Some more examples of this type here, where it originated from: http://buyaketa.blogspot.com/2012/02/compass-tapa.html


Finally, after all the anxiety over the last IB, I should say I am really excited for this one. Visionary, Make Room, Compass, Borders ( )... so much to look forward to.

swaroop2011 - 2012-03-25 10:36 PM

In roman Tapa is it that
III may be 1,1,1 or 2,1 or 3 itself
and IIIII may be 2,1,2 or 2,3 or 5 itself..etc.

Para - 2012-03-27 12:45 AM



If I understood it right. IIIII can't be 5. 5 would have to be a V, 5 I's can't be a 5.

RALehrer - 2012-03-29 1:28 AM

For Tapa Tapa:

The directions say that the cities CAN have Tapa clues. Does this mean they also have the option of not having clues? (The example shows only length 1 segments adjacent to cities, but without clues there could be longer segments. Can a city be shaded?

RALehrer - 2012-03-29 8:50 AM

If I read you right, then, cities MUST have tapa clues - as a square with no tapa clues can have any number of segments around it.

RALehrer - 2012-03-29 8:50 AM

If I read you right, then, cities MUST have tapa clues - as a square with no tapa clues can have any number of segments around it.

Para - 2012-03-29 10:23 AM



The rule is that any segment of the wall touching a city can only be 1 cell long.
From this my question comes. Do all cities have to be connected to eachother? For example, would the following puzzle be allowed?
The question of course can become irrelevant quickly if each city has at least one distance given.