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LITS (Tapa) (709)
Instruction:
Shade exactly four connected cells in each outlined region (with at least four cells) to form a tetromino, so that the following conditions are true: (1) All tetrominoes are connected into one large shape along their edges; (2) No 2×2 group of cells can be entirely shaded; (3) When two tetrominoes share an edge, they must not be of the same shape, regardless of rotations or reflections. (Not all four possible shapes have to be present in the grid; for example, it is possible for your solution to not have any "I" shapes.)
Numbers in a cell indicate the lengths of contiguous black cell groups along the "ring" of 8 cells touching that cell (fewer for cells along the outside edge). If there is more than one number in a cell, then there must be at least one white (unshaded) cell between the black cell groups. 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 can be shaded black.