bakpao's puzzles

Like ìn 2021, I was invited to write puzzles for the Indian Puzzle Championship again this year. This was a great experience last year and writing for 'official sources' such as the IPC and Pulze  continues to be one of my favorite parts of puzzle setting, so naturally I jumped at the opportunity. This year I supplied 6 puzzles, which can be found in this post, in order of appearance throughout the rounds. This post only contains the puzzles I wrote for the contest. Unlike last year, when IPC took place online, the full sets aren't available for free, but instead can be obtained for a small price which helps LMI cover the costs incurred to organize the live event and continue to organize them in the future.  The full set contains all the puzzle rounds, each of which are stacked with high quality puzzles by fantastic authors, as well as bonus content like the PR Playoff puzzles and a giant interconnected puzzle gift. If you are able to, I highly recommend purchasing the full

Nothing much to mention, just a fun little variant tapa. Probably on the easy side if you're already familiar with the clue patterns that occur in this variant. Difficulty: 3/5 (rules from Puzzle Rules ) Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.  Regions of unshaded cells may contain at most one clue, and the number of cells in an unshaded region with a clue must be equal to one of the numbers in the clue. (Regions are allowed to have no clues) Play on penpa https://tinyurl.com/2n822jae

Some more blocks to chain! Having a lot of fun exploring the different things one can do with this genre.  Difficulty: 2.5/5 (rules from  Puzzle Rules ) Shade some cells such that each connected group of shaded cells contains exactly one clue. Clues must be shaded, and indicate the size of their group of shaded cells. Each group of shaded cells must be connected by a corner to at least one other, forming networks. Two shaded groups belonging to the same network may not have the same shape and size, counting rotations and reflections as the same. Play on pzprxs https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?chainedb/11/11/l4g4j4n5n4i5i3t5q3t3i1i6n4n5j6g3l