Click the START button to let the system try to find the best solution.
Ten rectangles have to be placed such that their combined area is the greatest.

The right border shows the current area and the largest area found up to now.
The system will stop when all empty spaces are covered (which usually is not possible).

In most cases the program is very inefficent in finding such solution due to the huge size of the search tree. Hence this tool 'Area Solver' is more appropriate for cases with very few blocks on the board, for a small number of rectangles and for a small playing board.

To see the best solution tyhe program has found so far, stop the search process (by hitting the red button), then go backwards until the maximum-area-number changes.

Before the start you can edit the board with CTRL+C, CTRL+V, DEL and mouseclick.

Variants:
Variant 2 uses only 5 rectangles on the 20x20 board. (This variant gets a strange 'too many moves generated' error. Can anyone fix this?)
Variant 3 uses 10 rectangles on a 10x10 board.
There are also two variants with a random setups.

Please note that there are several alternative piece sets.