Questions tagged [polyomino]
A geometric puzzle centered around geometric figures formed from unit-squares.
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Largest set of independent hexominoes
What is the largest set of hexominoes that can be found in which no two of them are such that one can be converted into the other by cutting out one of its component squares (thus obtaining a ...
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Let's Play Tetris!
Fill the whole grid with Tetrominos.
Every cell must be part of exactly one Tetromino.
Tetrominos can be rotated as necessary.
The colored clue cells must be part of the indicated type of ...
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Finding the most flexible of all 35 hexominoes
Of all 35 hexominoes, which is (or are) the most flexible of all, that is, the one (or ones) that can be converted into the most other hexominoes just by cutting out one of its component squares (thus ...
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Generating all hexominoes by cutting and pasting
Place the 35 hexominoes around a circle in such a way that if two of the hexominoes find themselves next to each other, it is because one of the two can be obtained from the other by cutting out one ...
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Polyominoes to construct alphabet
It is possible, using a set of just 10 polyominoes, to construct any one of the 26 letters below. Can you find such a set?
When constructing, polyominoes may be rotated and flipped, but may not ...
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What is the minimum-sized Blokus board which can contain all pieces?
Rules:
Each player has the twelve pentominoes, five tetrominoes, two trominoes, one domino, and lone square. These may be flipped and rotated in any manner.
The board on which these are to be placed ...
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Fewest polyominoes to construct digits
What is the fewest polyominoes you need so that any one of the numbers $0$ to $9$ can be constructed?
When constructing, polyominoes may be rotated and flipped, but may not overlap.
Bonus: How few ...
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Filling the plane with two colors
In this puzzle you must tile the plane with colored T-tetraminos. I will start by laying down 3 of them for you like so:
Your task will be to tile the entire rest of the plane meeting the following ...
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Hand tiling puzzle demonstrating Eisenstein triple $c^2 = a^2 -ab + b^2$
An Eisenstein triple is related to 60 degree triangles and a special case of the cosine law. But we need not worry about that except to note that a specific example of an Eisenstein triple is $7^2 = 5^...
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Can you put L trominos to fill the figure?
In the above picture, there are 24 squares. Can you only use L trominos to fill the figure? If yes, give an example. Otherwise, please explain why.
An L tromino is like this:
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Covering an 8x8 grid with W pentominoes
What is the minimum number of W pentominoes you need to cover every cell of an 8x8 grid? Pentominoes may overlap each other and sit outside the boundary of the grid. They can also be rotated in any ...
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Covering an 8x8 grid with X pentominoes
What is the minimum number of X pentominoes you need to cover every cell of an 8x8 grid? Pentominoes may overlap each other and sit outside the boundary of the grid. An X pentomino looks like this:
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Rectangles formed from every tetromino, tromino and domino
Can you form a 4x7 rectangle from every tetromino, tromino and domino? There are 5 different tetrominoes, 2 trominoes and 1 domino. Can you find different arrangements that are not mirrors/rotations ...
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Four hand tiled squares demonstrating a Pythagorean Quadruple
Demonstrating the Pythagorean Quadruple
$6\times6 + 6\times6 + 7\times7 = 11\times11$
Using the pieces shown in the $11\times11$ square:
The objective:
Arrange the pink pieces (four enneominoes) ...
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Piece de Resistance - Eight Doubled Tetrominoes Make a Tetronogram
Eight Doubled Tetrominoes Make a Tetronogram
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight ...
Time for ...
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Introducing Tetronogram - Beginner's Version
Introducing Tetronogram! (named by @MrPie)
The puzzle is made of a grid like a nonogram.
Notations are along the axes like a classic nonogram but numbers are replaced by the names of the ...
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Restoring 3D Tetromino Puzzle
You won't believe this. I worked all night to make a new 3D tetromino puzzle, and just as I was about to save the final version there was a power outage! Now I can't remember what the final clues were ...
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3D tetromino placement
The following image depicts a $5\times5\times5$ cube. Insert any number of the pictured 3D-tetromino pieces into the cube to satisfy the conditions listed below. Pieces may be rotated in any direction....
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BOOM! All Clear for Mr. T
In Tetris 99, Mr. T loves performing All Clears, which happen when a piece clears all lines in the playing field. Being a gentleman, he also tries to minimize the total damage he sends to his ...
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Pentomino solution maximizing straight lines length in rectangle - wood cutter problem
Recently in my free time I cut from wood with my scroll saw two pentomino sets. One set made from 10x6 pattern, and then the other set 20x3 pattern. Think of wood cutter difficulties. I would like to ...
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How many colors does it take?
This question is from a popular monthly science magazine in my country:
You have an 8x8 square where any 3 squares forming a tromino (including reflections and rotations) must consist of three ...
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The Pentomino Snake
The premise of the puzzle is quite simple. Here's how to set it up.
Draw a 5x5 grid of squares.
Write the number 1 in the middle.
Make a "snake" of numbers up to 25 so that each number is ...
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Statue Park (Loop)
Place each of the twelve pentominoes into the grid once, with rotations and reflections allowed. No two pentominoes can overlap or be orthogonally adjacent, and all cells not occupied by the ...
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Tiling rectangles with a Heptomino plus 2x2 square
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #7
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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Ziggy - Make a square from 8 polyomino pieces
A few years ago I created a small packing puzzle that I'd like to share here today. The puzzle is based on the fact that $1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 = 6^2$. It consists of 8 zig-zag polyomino pieces, ranging in ...
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Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #6
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #3
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #4
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #2
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #3
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
Next ...
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Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
Next ...
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Tiling a rectangle with an odd number of Y pentomoes
Follow-on from Tiling a rectangle with just the Y pentomino
Two questions:
Find the smallest rectangle that can be tiled with an odd number of
Y pentominoes, or prove it impossible
Find the smallest ...
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Tiling a rectangle with just the Y pentomino
Inspired by this question series, which was inspired by this question. They give rise to beautiful pictures (at least in the eye of the beholder mathematician) and some nice generalizable solutions.
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Tiling rectangles with X pentomino plus rectangles
Inspired by Polyomino Z pentomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
Also in this series:
Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles
Tiling rectangles with N pentomino plus rectangles
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Tiling rectangles with V pentomino plus rectangles
Inspired by Polyomino Z pentomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
Also in this series:
Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles
Tiling rectangles with N pentomino plus rectangles
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Tiling rectangles with U pentomino plus rectangles
Inspired by Polyomino Z pentomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
Also in this series:
Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles
Tiling rectangles with N pentomino plus rectangles
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Tiling rectangles with T pentomino plus rectangles
Inspired by Polyomino Z pentomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
Also in this series:
Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles
Tiling rectangles with N pentomino plus rectangles
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Tiling rectangles with N pentomino plus rectangles
Inspired by Polyomino Z pentomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
Also in this series:
Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles
Tiling rectangles with T pentomino plus rectangles
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Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles
Inspired by Polyomino Z pentomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
Also in this series:
Tiling rectangles with N pentomino plus rectangles
Tiling rectangles with T pentomino plus rectangles
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Tiling rectangles with W pentomino plus rectangles
Inspired by Polyomino Z pentomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
Also in this series:
Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles
Tiling rectangles with N pentomino plus rectangles
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Covering an 8×8 grid with trominoes
I tried to find non-trivial solutions on a deficient 8×8 grid covered with trominoes and I regret to say that after extensive efforts I found only two non-trivial solutions:
The conditions of ...
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Four Pieces Polyomino
Goal: Create a symmetric polyomino using:
Two pieces
Three pieces
All four pieces
Notes: This is the only set of four different pentominoes which has only one solution with 2, 3 and 4 pieces.
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Hand tiling puzzle 2
Here's another set of polyominoes (sizes 4,5,6,7,8,9,10) that you can print and cut out. As before, the two smallest (same pieces as previous version) make a 3x3. The rest of the pieces are different. ...
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Hand tiling puzzle
Here's a set of polyominoes (sizes 4,5,6,7,8,9,10) that you can print and cut out. You can use the two smallest to make a 3x3. Nice easy one to get you started. Add a piece to make a 3x5. Add another ...
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A minor rearrangement of the one sided hexominoes in 12 simultaneous shapes
Here are the one sided hexominoes arranged into 12 congruent shapes. But there are one or two flaws: The dark blue hexominoes, which are the symmetric ones, may not occur more than once each in a ...
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Hexominoes into 7 simultaneous congruent shapes
I came up with this puzzle 16 years ago, it was on Ed Pegg's Mathpuzzle site but nobody solved it AFAIK.
The 35 hexominoes (which look like this):
are to be arranged, in groups of five, into seven ...
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Tetromi-nuri-doku
Note: This puzzle was inspired by the one here, by Mike Q.
Every square in the grid above, when the puzzle is complete, has a number between 1 and 9 in it and either is shaded or is not. Each 3x3 ...
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Near-fill with 3x1 long triominos, how to do a different void square than the center square?
It's rather easy to fill a $7 \times 7$ board with 16 long triominos, leaving the center square void: see the picture below. But if I want to move the void square in another position, where else could ...
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Tetromino Sudoku
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids
The grid below, when filled in, forms a valid Sudoku grid. It can also be filled in like a LITS (nuruomino) puzzle without the 1x4 ...
