Puzzle 258: Excluesive tapa

Another new tapa variation.
Rules:Follow regular Tapa rules. Additionally,no two instances of the same digit(obviously from different clues)share shaded squares.
Note: This is just an example to demonstrate the variation.The aditional constraint does not affect the solve.

Puzzle 256: Wordic tapa

Wordic tapa will also be seen at the TVC. I think the intended logic works well. I had to trade symmetry for uniqueness.
Rules: Follow regular Tapa rules. Additionally, the clues give the number of letters in the word equivalent of actual Tapa clues.

Puzzle 255: Elimination tapa

This variation appears at TVC XIV this weekend. The one on TVC XIV is likely going to be a 15x15.

Puzzle 254: Exotapa

Rules: Follow regular tapa rules. Additionally, each clue represents the 8-square ring that surrounds the square 3 diagonal units away from its actual physical location,in the direction indicated by the sign in the corner of the clue square.For example, if a clue is in R1C3 and the sign is in the bottom-right corner of the square, its logical location would be R3C5. Physically, the clues do not move. Like in regular tapa,the clue squares cannot be shaded, and all other white squares can be shaded.

Puzzle 253: Ecotapa

Rules: An amateur tapa designer started with many clues and forgot to erase the bad clues from the tapa.When another designer found the tapa, he removed a few pairs of symmetrical clues and designed a new tapa with them. Identify the removed clues,place each pair in symmetrically opposite shaded cells on the second grid,and solve both tapas.

Puzzle 252: Interactions in tapa

Rules: Follow regular tapa rules.Additionally, no clue can share shaded cells with more than two clues.

Puzzle 251: Overblown tapa

Rules: Follow regular tapa rules.Additionally, the digits in the given range( 1 to 8 in this puzzle ) must be used atleast k times( twice in this puzzle) each.

Puzzle 250: Depleted tapa

Another tapa variation.
Rules: Follow regular tapa rules.Additionally, every clue digit in the given range (1 to 6 in this puzzle) can be used only upto k( 2 times in this puzzle) times. Digits not in the given range are not allowed.

Puzzle 249: Tapa Islands

Rules: Follow regular tapa rules. Additionally, unpainted cells form separate areas surrounded by the wall. Each separate area may contain at most one clue cell. If there is a clue cell in an area, at least one digit should give the size of that area in unit squares.

Puzzle 248: Touchy fillomino

Puzzle 247: Contoured Road

Double back and masyu work together in this new variation,neither of the two in their classical form. The clues are part of the twist,each representing either the number of masyu circles that can fit inside the corresponding outlined region,or the number of occasions the loop enters the region(or both, in some cases).Unlike masyu,and as in double back, the loop visits all the squares.

Puzzle 246: Compound Tapa

Rules: