As per the title really.
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| Fig. 1: I was going to say that this is approaching the limit of what can feasibly be solved by hand, by a human. But then again I probably said that about much simpler hexomino things when I was first starting out so who knows, eh? |
The top-centre and middle-left rectangles had to be rebuilt fairly late on in the solve because I'd done them with the holes offset by one square the first time. Total solve time was about 6-7 hours, of which close to two was spent on the last half of the final (bottom-right) rectangle. There were just a few awkward pieces - the three which surround the right-hand hole especially - that I had unintentionally held onto far too late into the solution, and they caused all manner of ball-ache.
Nine 11x30's with similar hole configurations to this should be possible (also 6x55 rectangles, if you want to suffer...), but not right now. After solving something like this there's always that period of a few weeks where I feel like I'd rather be made to eat the octomino set than tackle another huge construction with them. Right now I'm still in that phase. Recovering.
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