Geometry Nodes: create custom grid

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I’d like to make an hexagonal tiles flooring like this

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At the moment, the only way I’m thinking to solve this is to create the 2 alternate rows and the multiply by columns.
I’ve used 2 mesh line nodes for the 2 rows and then input them into an “instance on points” where another mesh line node create the columns.
The problem is that the instances in the 2 rows are duplicated by the colums and I have them repeated instead of using random material tiles.
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I’m thinking that or I’m wrong with my “design” or I don’t know if there is a way to say to blender that every instance is a single instance and assign it a random material.

Have you some tips to drive to the right way?
Thanks in advance

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Watching this

I was able to create full random material tiles using a “realize instances” like the video.

Now I’d like to find a way to make some “booleans” operation to delete the unwanted points of the grid, where they’re outside the floor shape.

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thanks to @higgsas that give me this tip

And also the @Xeofrios

Thank you both