Puzzle 298: Abstract Tapa

This is a new tapa variation. This variation is inherently less constrained and offers quite a few interesting clue interactions.
Rules: Paint some cells to create a continuous wall of connected cells. Every clue cell contains two numbers, one of which indicates that there is atleast one painted cell block of that size, surrounding it. The second number gives the same information about unpainted cells surrounding the clue cell. Clue cells are considered as unpainted. Painted cells cannot form a 2x2 group anywhere in the grid.

Puzzle 297: Superfluous Tapa

This is a very interesting new variation on tapa.
Rules: Shade some cells obeying regular tapA's rules. in addition to that, every shaded cell that does not directly contribute to a tapa clue( is not adjacent to any clue in any way) has to be adjacent to atleast one other shaded cell of the same type.

Puzzle 296: Pentomino Kurotto

This is a new variation using pentominoes.
Rules: Place some pentominoes, not more than once each. Pentominoes may be rotated and reflected. Pentominoes cannot touch each other, not even diagonally, and cannot occupy numbered cells. Numbers indicate how many pentominoes are edge-adjacent to the cell containing the number.

Puzzle 295: Pentomino Gates

A new pentomino variation.
 Rules: Letters are written in some cells. Place n different pentomino shapes in some of the white cells( n is given next to the puzzle), without overlapping, so that the remaining cells are divided into some regions. Two regions may touch only diagonally, so do the pentominoes . Every region must contain at least one letter, and all letters in a region must be identical. Pentominoes may be rotated/reflected. Not all occurrences of a letter are required to be in the same region.

Puzzle 294: Oasis Tapa

This is a new tapa type. To solve this puzzle, follow regular tapa rules, and additionally, any islands ( groups of connected unshaded cells) created by the wall must contain at least one circle. Cells with Circles may be shaded. Clue cells are considered as unshaded cells

Puzzle 293: Pentominous

This is a pentominous puzzle.

Puzzle 292: kurotto

Puzzle 291: Frozen pairs

This is a new puzzle variation. Rules: Place the given pentomino shapes, two in each outlined region, so that in the end, no pentomino can move in any direction. Movement of Pentominoes is blocked by other adjacent pentominoes and the edge of the grid. Thick lines do not block movement!
Pentominoes given : LPUW

Puzzle 290: Tapa holes

This is a tapa puzzle with the additional constraint that all unshaded cells must form n islands of different sizes 1 to n. All white cells belong to one of those n islands. In today's puzzle, n=9.

Puzzle 289: Perpendicular LITS

It has been some time since I posted here. Perpendicular LITS is a very interesting new variation on LITS.
Rules: Shade some cells to form a single connected area with no 2x2 square completely shaded(only L,I,T,S tetrominoes will be used). Every outlined region must contain a tetromino as shaded cells. No two tetrominoes of the same shape may share an edge. Tetrominoes may be rotated or reflected. All shaded cells must be part of some tetromino. When two tetrominoes touch horizontally or vertically, they must be oriented perpendicularly, meaning, the longer side of the smallest bounding rectangle of one tetromino has to be horizontally oriented while the other tetromino's longer side has to be vertically oriented, and vice-versa.