For our last spotlight (at least on a regular basis), I spent a long time thinking about what genre to do before realizing that we hadn't had a non-square grid yet. (Tawamurenga doesn't count.) Here's my opportunity to fix that! This genre is Trapezoids, originally invented by Dan Adams in 2016. It's a genre that only works on triangular grids, using that geometry in an interesting way.
Rules. Shade some cells black. Shaded cells must be in clusters of three, forming trapezoids. Trapezoids may not touch orthogonally. All the unshaded cells must form a single connected group. Each number indicates the number of shaded cells in the (up to six) cells surrounding the clue.
Small note: Dan's original puzzles don't seem to have any clues along the border of the grid. I found border clues easier to work with, so added them into my constructions.
Here are the two puzzles! The first is a bit silly, as you'll see (or can possibly guess).
The second one is tricky in some places and smooth in others. I didn't quite get the chance to keep all the logic I wanted, but that wasn't really a problem in the long run.
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