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Polysquare puzzle

Polysquare puzzles are mathematical puzzles involving polysquares or polyominoes, which are two-dimensional shapes consisting of several squares of the same size glued together.

A very special type of polysquare puzzles is the set of square-puzzles, where all given shapes are squares with integral sidelength.

Examples of polysquare puzzles

  • B-Pento
  • G-Primes
  • Decomino
  • Pento
  • Pentominoes
  • Reptiles
  • Reptiles II
  • Reptiles III
  • Semblo
  • Sticks
  • Square puzzles
    • Square The Square
    • Square The Square II
  • Tetris (and its various clones)
  • Ypento
  • Y-Primes

See also: Tiling puzzle

External References

Reference

  • Solomon Golomb, Polyominoes, Princeton University Press, 1994.


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