
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Consider a $5 \times 5$ grid of squares, where each square is either colored blue or left blank. The design on the grid is considered symmetric if it remains unchanged under a 90° rotation around the center. How many symmetric designs can be created if there must be at least one blue square but not all squares can be blue?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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