I got this idea from Gray's snaze puzzle. It's easy to solve, but hard to solve efficiently. See if you can get this one in 5 moves.

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Title: Solve in 5
Author: lexaloffle
Difficulty: 5
Wall: 0
Floor: 6
Validation: f1e9a243
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I have tried numerous ways, but always end up with 6 moves. Please help.

Nice!
[Need...to...find...solution...before...it...gets...posted...]

A clue:

I have tried to create all sorts of shapes, but nothing gives me 5 moves. Please show it.
After I see it, I'll probably slap myself, but oh well...

Here you go:

Chocolate Castle Recording
Room: 0  Set: 0  Moves: 5  Len: 25  Chash: fb29
M5a39M9935M4256M5686Mee6c

Thanks Postbot. I just didn't see it. Genius!

Wow, I would have never got there myself.

BTW, is Postbot somehow related to Lexaloffle? He seems to be using a "secret" icon from the website :)

Yep that was me, I forgot to log in again. I made postbot to move puzzles across from the old BBS so that they're searchable.