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Loop (Tapa) (915)
Instruction:
Draw a single closed loop through some cells. The loop may not intersect itself, go through a cell corner, or go through a cell more than once. The loop must go through the center of every cell it goes through and all turns in the loop must be at cell centers.
Numbers in a cell indicate the lengths of all loop segments within the “ring” of 8 cells touching that cell (fewer for cells along the outside edge). The numbers are given in no particular order. As a special case, if the number given in a cell is a zero (0), it means that none of the cells around that cell are part of the loop. Cells with numbers must not be part of the loop.
This is a Loop puzzle with Tapa-like constraints, not a Tapa puzzle with a loop constraint. For example, there is no 2×2 constraint in this puzzle, and adjacent cells that are part of the path only count for a clue if they are connected.