Tapastry

Solution

by Jasmine Wang, Kaity Du, Liam Thomas, and Lumia Neyo

Tech: Brian Shimanuki

This is a Minesweeper puzzle with some clues colored black and other clues colored blue. Some blue clues are much larger numbers than 8 which means they won't work as normal Minesweeper clues, but we can notice from the title that they are Tapa clues, though without the constraint of the mines forming a connected wall. We can also use what we know about black clues from King-Sized Mines to assume that black clues in this puzzle are normal Minesweeper clues.

Using these observations, we can deduce that this is the unique solution to the puzzle:

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1
11
3
12
x
x
x
x
x
23
x
1111
5
x
x
x
x
111
x
x
x
x
x
13
x
1
2
22
x
4
x
x
x
x