Color Space

Solution

by Jasmine Wang, Kaity Du, and Lumia Neyo

Tech: Brian Shimanuki

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We notice that we have access to 3x3 mines once again, and that clues come in many colors. Some of these colors are colors that have appeared in previous puzzles, while the others are mixtures of colors that have appeared in previous puzzles.

We see that yellow clues are clues that are both red and green, cyan clues are clues that are both blue and green, and magenta clues are clues that are both red and blue. We often see individual numbers in clues being magenta, which applies to only one section of the tapa clue.

The color definitions are as follows:

(there are no white clues)

The completed grid is shown below.

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