Canal View
Ever since I got introduced to Tapa and other paper puzzles last Summer/Spring, I’ve every now and then played some on the puzz.link website and in general been intrigued by them. I can recommend the puzzle types called Tapa, LITS & Akari. As is usual for me, I wanted to try creating my own paper puzzle variant; I picked a fairly obvious set of rules close to those of Tapas & Nurikabes and the end result is something I called “Somethingapa” because I didn’t know what to call it. Rules below:
I showed my invention to a community of puzzle game developers and Deusovi kindly informed me that this set of rules had already been invented in the form of the Canal View paper puzzle. Oh well! I had good fun and got inspiration for some other things, plus managed to create a simple paper puzzle designer program in Löve2D, so all in all it was an enjoyable endeavour! (And obviously feeling sad that someone had already come up with the same idea is somewhat silly but I can’t entirely help it.) Here are two more example puzzles:
Canal View is a very nice puzzle type. Thanks to Prasanna for creating this puzzle type. I am looking forward to more puzzle of this type.
My bad then: I tried to shade one by one the cells around the bottom left 1, and I must have made a mistake because in the last case I couldn’t connect the bottom left 5 without giving it more than 5 shaded cells, I retried and it worked fine this time, was fun, I always like to see new kind of puzzles, I played way too much the ones generated by tatham apps.
Sorry for the mail, I though I needed an account for that and I realized I already commented something years ago. So:
Hello, I play this kind of games since years, and either somethingapa 3 (the 10×10 grid) is wrong or somehow I made a mistake, can you show me the solution please ? Here in comment or sending it to my mail address, thank you in advance.
No problem about the e-mail! As you see, answering here in the blog is kind of slow anyway so I might send you e-mail again in any case. :)