min+2 :3 I owe one area to my girlfriend, who asked me why I wasn't putting one of the elements into the middle of the reagent - I'm wondering how many solves got min area+1 because of that. This was a rather interesting puzzle. The large size of the input seems to have made naive-area basically impossible (unless i'm missing some way to rotate the whole thing). I've used every area in the puzzle that I created from the interesting geometry - except that damn upper left corner. I'm certain if any further area drop occurs it'll involve swing the molecule in a way that magically doesn't create that extra waste.