week 5:

Area!
First time i have spent effort on a area puzzle
the last couple steps are the hardest, having the entire puzzle be bonded with only 1 extra row of free space is difficult

I had to work backwards from the final movement, finding the weird lopsided Y shape as the last shape needed, then it was easy from there :p 44 should be min i dont see a way of shifting it to bond the whole structure with less area

So turns out i was wrong, 44 is not min
i had a dream where i was solving this puzzle, and somehow had a sideways movement as the final one that bonded everything, and, well, it worked :p
The last shape was really annoying, the 4 atom "gun" needed to be bonded on the bonder blocked by the input, which means suppression suppression and more suppression

Also that big swing with the big stick for the top of the shape goes hard i think


Area progression
59 -> 56 -> 55 -> 53 -> 48 -> 47 -> 44 -> 42

Prediction : 30th place