After about 45 minutes (either this was a fluke or I'm getting better) I found the following solution - or at least I thought I had:
Notice anything unusual?
That's right, I somehow managed to centre the four holes incorrectly. They're all one square up from where they should be, giving the total rectangle only one axis of symmetry instead of two. And I only noticed this right at the very end when it came to drawing up a neat copy of the solution.
In my defence, the table's perspective made it looks completely fine as I was solving. That, and I clearly couldn't be bothered to count to 17. |
Actually, just for the hell of it, here's a bonus heptomino construction from a few weeks back.
The 108 heptominoes (and 3 monominoes) in a 23x33 parallelogram. You've gotta call the holes 'monominoes', it makes it sound more like they're intentional. |
There'll be a parallelogram with base 23 and height 33 out there, but that would mean having to build even more wiggly edges again, so I'll pass on that one for now.
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