Puzzle 273: Tapa spread

Rules: In addition to usual tapa rules,you have to ensure that every horizontal row contains atleast one shaded cell that is directly around a clue.

Puzzle 272: Tapa place

Rules: Distribute the given clues to the grey cells, one clue per cell, and solve the resulting Tapa puzzle.

Puzzle 270,271: Alternative tapa and symmetric tapa

Rules:
Alternative: In addition to usual rules,for each set of identical letters, only one is visited by the wall and the others are not.
Symmetric: In addition to usual rules,part of wall should have central symmetry inside every largest possible rectangle having a black dot in the centre.

Puzzle 269: Line check tapa

This new variation is more constrained than Tapa Line. Tapa line considers rows of only shaded cells.

Rules: In addition to usual rules, no four cells in a row can be of the same colour( shaded or unshaded).

Puzzle 268: Tapa in Kakuro

When I developed kakuro-style tapa, I was not sure if the title would be a good fit, as it was not exactly modelled on the kakuro theme, the "all different numbers in a row" being the only kakuro element. So, I had to add the word 'style' to the title to indicate a kakuro-like behaviour. This new kakuro adaptation of tapa ,'Tapa in kakuro', attempts to close that gap. Now, the outside ( and inside,if any) clues indicate the sum of 'sizes of blocks', not the number of blocks.
For the record, this takes the number of my tapa variations alone to an astounding 48.

Rules: In addition to regular tapa rules, clues in black cells represent the total number of shaded cells in the corresponding directions. For any direction provided with a clue, all separate blocks of shaded cells must be of different lengths.

Puzzle 267: Pentominous

I just saw a perfect introduction to a nice pentomino variation here. Here is my first attempt. Pretty easy, but it has a nice aesthetic feel.

Puzzle 266: Consistent tapa

Rules: In addition to regular rules, exactly one of the used digits is consistently false, and takes the same actual value at every occurence.

Puzzle 265: Hex tapa

In addition to usual tapa rules,shaded cells cannot form three hexagons meeting in a point. There are no wall segments on cells containing numbers.

Puzzle 264: Tapa and a half

Another nice variation. The example I am showing here is rather trivial.I am saving the actual tapa for another day. This variation is not trivial at all, and not a combination of two variations either.

Rules: In addition to regular rules, the clues now see upto 12 cells around the clue cell: 8 regular squares plus one orthogonally adjacent square for each of the four squares that are orthogonally adjacent to the clue.

Puzzle 263: Tapa double back

This is a tapa double back .

Puzzle 262: Semi-liar masyu

I think this variation can be attributed to Grant Fikes, and I have seen atleast two examples of this type that he wrote.

Rules: In addition to regular masyu rules, half of the circles are lying.The loop has to alternate between a liar and a truthful circle.

Puzzle 261: Tapa

Puzzle 260: Boats in tapa

A new variation.
Rules: In addition to regular rules, place some boats in white squares, one in a square. Boats do not touch each other, not even diagonally.Boats cannot be placed in clue squares. Atleast one number in every clue gives the number of boats in its row and column.

Puzzle 259: Disguised tapa

Rules: Follow regular tapa rules. Additionally, some or all of the single-digit clues indicate the number of blocks of shaded squares around the clue square, rather than the length of the block.