Puzzles #556 & #557 - Broken Dynasties (Statue Kurodoko, Domino Context)

Recently - and by recently I mean nearly 3 months ago by the time of posting - I submitted 2 puzzles to Puzzlers Clue Logic Showcase 46, with the prompt of taking a "dynasty" genre and changing only the rule about shaded adjacency. "Dynasty" is the jargonistic term for a structure where shaded cells may not be adjacent and all unshaded cells are connected. I actually submitted with first Kurodoko Statue Park about 90 minutes after the showcase prompt was posted, and it ended up being a tied win! Clues act as Kurodoko clues, and the shaded cells must form exactly one instance of each of the twelve pentominos as in Statue Park.

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I'm pretty sure this puzzle is unique without the 5s on the right side and possibly without the 7 at the top, but since puzzles are meant to be solved... it makes a much better puzzle to not require ridiculous packing steps.

I also made a Domino Context, where the only rule change is that all shaded groups are dominos instead of monominos. This one ended up in 5th (behind two Menderbug puzzles with the same number of votes, losing the tiebreak to Menderbug as I voted for 2 puzzles instead of 3) which is pretty respectable. I think any of these could have ended up winning and honestly, that this variant is more interesting than the base genre.

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