I can't see any way of doing this without stashing the last roach somewhere
There is a wrong assumption here, specifically:
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×stashing the last roach
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×In other words you need as many roaches as possible so they block each other and allow you to leave the trapdoor area with one last spare roach.
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×My solution allows me to kill only one roach before stepping on the first trapdoor.
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