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Ponder This Challenge - June 2018 - Five L/J Tetrominoes

There are two L-shaped one-sided tetrominoes - tetrominoes that can be translated and rotated but not flipped:

	 X
	 X
	XX

and

	X
	X
	XX

Known as "J" and "L", respectively. The following shape can be created both from three "L"s and from three "J"s (how?):

This shape is symmetrical (using the drawn top-left to bottom-right diagonal as an axis) and has a hole inside.
This month's challenge is to find an asymmetrical shape without holes that can be constructed both from five "L"s and from five "J"s.

Solution

  • The solution is:

     a
     a
    baacee
    bcccde
    bbddde
    

    and

     a
     a
    aaddde
    bcccde
    bbbcee
    

    You can rotate it, of course, but it is the only solution.

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