Today's offering from Puzzlerium is a Statue Park puzzle, albeit with a different presentation. It pains me that even to this day, puzzles involving Pentomino shapes don't really enjoy the same status as some Number placement puzzles do. Statue Park, a puzzle that deals with Pentomino shapes, has been on the scene for nearly a decade now. Although it doesn't really need to be tweaked further for what it is, here is my version of Statue Park when it crosses over with Tapa, in a loose sense of that.
Note that while Statue Park asks us to use ALL of the shapes given, I rather thought this variant was more fun without that constraint. I believe I am the first to explore this variant, unless I am missing something.
So, here is what the rules look like:
Rules: Shade in some cells such that all of the shaded cells form some (or all) of the given shapes, without repetition, and with rotation and reflection allowed. Shapes cannot be orthogonally adjacent to each other. In the end, all unshaded cells must be connected in a single group through other unshaded cells. Numbers in a cell indicate how many Pentomino cells are contained in a continuous shaded cell block in its surrounding cells. If there is more than one number in the clue cell, there has to be at least one white cell separating the black cell blocks
About Statue Park: Statue Park was invented by Palmer Mebane and was first published in 2011.
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