[Simplicity]

Scoring: IMP

T1: ♥4,3,2,A
T2: ♥6,5,Q,♠9

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Playing in a local league match you arrive in 6♥ by South after declarer has shown a balanced hand with 5 hearts. Opponents are capable, but non-expert playing 2/4 leads, and odd encouraging, even discouraging discards. Plan the play

On the next two rounds of hearts RHO will pitch the 2 and 5 of diamonds

[Rossoneri]

Maybe I should just add a hint:

Spoiler

Try to guess RHO's hand shape

[Hanoi5]

I finish the hearts throwing a diamond from dummy and hope RHO has been squeezed.

[Benoit35]

RHO is likely to be 5-1-4-3 or 5-1-3-4. If someone has the fourth club, it's gotta be him (otherwise 5-5 and no talk - unlikely).

After cashing all the trumps and the top three clubs (Lefty showing out), we turn to ♠AK. Dummy now has ♠QT ♣6 while East has had to discard all his diamonds to hold on to ♠Jx ♣J.

Throw him a hot potato - the last club.

Genius discard alert! If East starts with ♠9x and the ♦A, then the 12th trick can be finessed in either spades or diamonds; however, RHO can talk you into the above (now losing) line of play by falsecarding the ♠9. Buy him a beer for me if this happens, and go spend an hour with your shrink.

[Simplicity]

This one hasn't generated too much interest, but i found the end position rather elegant.
Here are the 4 hands:

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At the table having cashed 4 hearts and 1 spade declarer cashed 3 top clubs ending in dummy to find they break 4-2 with LHO, ruffed a club back to hand to leave this position:

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A spade is played to dummy and then a diamond is led off the table and ducked by declarer.

I thought this line was interesting as it caters for so many divisions of the diamond and spade suits.

Admittedly east can defend better by pitching the ♦QJ and in the hope that his partner has the ♦AT, perhaps i should have given it as a defensive problem?

Or perhaps pitching a second spade so as to unguard his Jack, and retain ♦QJ would have induced declarer to finesse?

[Benoit35]

I don't think this line works if West has any one of ♦Q, J or 9 and East is careful not to let himself be thrown in.

So this play is a longshot... but once you find out about the clubs I don't see much else to do.