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Cipher Hungarian Tapa

(Published on 5. April 2023, 21:49 by the_cogito)

Originally this puzzle was meant to have no letters, which I pursued as a personal challenge. But I decided the resulting puzzle wasn't actually fun, and so I've set this with that goal in mind instead. I hope you enjoy.

Rules:

Tapa: Shade some cells to form a single connected wall. Cells with clues cannot be shaded, and shaded cells cannot form a 2×2 square anywhere in the grid. Every shaded cell must contain a digit from 1-9, which may not repeat within any row or column. Unshaded cells are completely empty except for given clues.

Hungarian Tapa: Numbers in a cell indicate the sums of unbroken strings of shaded cells in the 3x3 area around that cell, in no particular order. If there is more than one number in a cell, then there must be at least one unshaded cell that separates/breaks up each such string. Digits may repeat within a string. Every clued cell is fully clued, and does not have any extraneous strings surrounding it.

Question Marks: A ? represents a single digit number. A ?? represents a double digit number, which may not begin with 0, but may end in 0.

Cipher: Each letter must be replaced with a unique digit from 1-9.


I've made an example for people to solve if they'd like, with the digits 1-6 and only two cipher digits. It should also demonstrate the rules in action, and I actually think it's pretty cool in the world of example puzzles.



Solve example on Penpa+
Solve example on SudokuPad

And now the main puzzle



Solve on Penpa+
Solve on SudokuPad

Solution code: Column 10, read from top to bottom. Mark '0' for all unshaded cells.

Last changed on on 6. April 2023, 15:25

Solved by CookieWookie, RJBlarmo, h5663454, Piatato, widjo, Jesper, abed hawila, KNT, Niverio, karzym, polar, filuta, Playmaker6174, Agent, ddx01, Snookerfan, Joe Average, szabog, Mark Sweep, misko, Uhu, PixelPlucker, ManuH, tuturitu, Christounet, OGRussHood, SKORP17, Jaych, Tom-dz, nottabird, puzzler05, Chefofdeath
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Comments

on 11. June 2023, 00:07 by Christounet
Very enjoyable ! If only I had not been so bad at the end scanning... Thanks :)

on 19. April 2023, 03:46 by szabog
Very enjoyable puzzle, thank you - and the example is pretty cool, indeed :)

on 7. April 2023, 17:02 by Snookerfan
Great puzzle! I kept breaking it and had to restart it a few times, so I still marked it 5 stars. Thank you

on 7. April 2023, 16:19 by ddx01
Very nice puzzle. I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you, the cogito! ^_^

on 7. April 2023, 16:02 by Agent
Nice one, very fun ruleset!

on 7. April 2023, 10:45 by Playmaker6174
Great fun and lovely puzzle! First half went really smoothly, then second half required some careful thoughts but after that the solve was smooth again. I had a big smile at the end there :)

on 7. April 2023, 04:12 by filuta
impressive setting

on 6. April 2023, 20:29 by Niverio
Very fun puzzle! Smooth like butter, as long as one can scan the big grid, nothing but pure joy!

on 6. April 2023, 15:25 by the_cogito
Changed difficulty to 4/5

on 6. April 2023, 12:08 by Piatato
Thanks for two such awesome puzzles! The big one really solves very smoothly! It's really a very large 3/5 puzzle, I hope people won't be afraid to try it. :)

on 6. April 2023, 00:10 by CookieWookie
A very smooth and enjoyable solve. Thank you!

Difficulty:4
Rating:94 %
Solved:32 times
Observed:3 times
ID:000DIS

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