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PUZZLE   IBM-242

Five L/J Tetrominoes

IBM Research · Ponder This · 2018-06

IBM Ponder This #242 · June 2018

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

Best opened after a real attempt

To be added.