#43 - Disconnection / Tapa Hybrid

   Here's something new and funky - a hybrid between Disconnection and Tapa. I started playing around with Disconnection not too long ago, and came up with some nice puzzles, but it's ridiculously difficult to set. I often needed to give freebies, relied heavily on the same type of deductions and faced uniqueness issues around every corner. 

I tried looking for modifications to the ruleset (such as regions with clues denoting the amount of shaded cells in the region) and genres to combine it with, and I particularly liked the logic that came up with Tapa. I decided to try and write a full puzzle around it. There may be more soon, there's tons of interactions to explore here. 

Difficulty: 3/5 (more for novelty than complexity, I suppose)

(rewritten version of base rules for Tapa and Disconnection, both of which are taken from Puzzle Rules)

Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Each region must contain exactly two separate orthogonally connected groups of shaded cells. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue. 

Play on penpa

https://tinyurl.com/y9rm8z7r