| A_Dissection_Puzzle T. Sillke asks for dissections of two heptominoes into squares. |
| Equilateral_Pentagons Jorge Luis Mireles Jasso investigates these polygons and dissects various polyominos into them. Animations show cases of infinite solutions. |
| Eternity_Page Alex Selby's page with a description of his solution method, with illustrations in .png and .pdf files. |
| Flexagons Conrad and Hartline's 1962 article on Flexagons. |
| Flexagons Folded paper polyiamonds which can be unfolded to show hidden faces. Make interesting school projects. |
| Gamepuzzles Polyomino and polyform games and puzzles manufactured by Kadon Enterprises Inc. |
| The_Geometry_Junkyard__Polyominoes Numerous links, sorted alphabetically. |
| George_Huttlin\'s_Puzzle_Page George Huttlin shares some ramblings in the world of polyominoes. |
| Gerard\'s_Pentomino_Page Illustrates the 12 shapes. symmetrical combinations. |
| Golygons Harry J. Smith's explains polyominoes with consecutive integer side lengths. |
| Golygons_by_Mathworld What they are, and how to find them. |
| Harold_McIntosh\'s_Flexagon_Papers Including copies of the original 1962 Conrad-Hartline papers. Abstract, html-pages, or .pdf documents. |
| Henri_Picciotto\'s_Geometric_Puzzles_in_the_Classroom Polyform puzzle lessons for math educators to use with their students, including polyominoes, supertangrams, and polyarcs. |
| Hepto Some packings of the 108 heptominoes (with unit thickness) into various blocks. |
| Hexiamonds George Huttlin explains and illustrates these shapes composed of 6 equilateral triangles, which in turn tiles different forms. |
| Hyperbolic_Planar_Tessellations Don Hatch's page on hyperbolic tesselations with numerous illustrations. |
| Information_on_Pentomino_Puzzles At the Combinatorial Object Server. |
| Isoperimetric_Polygons Livio Zucca tiles polygons of equal perimeter, or isoperiploes. |
| Java_pentominoes Thery families web site with pentomino solver. (English/French)[Java]. |
| Knight\'s_Move_Tessellations Dan Thomasson looks at tesselations with numerous unexpected shapes traced out by knight moves. |
| Lego_Pentominos Eric Harshbarger. This puzzle maker says that the hard part was finding legos in enough different colors. |
| Livio_Zucca\'s_polyomino-covered_cube Colorful illustrations demonstrate how closed surfaces could be covered by polyominoes. |
| Logical_Art_and_the_Art_of_Logic Pentomino pictures, software and other resources by Guenter Albrecht-Buehler. |
| The_Mathematics_of_Polyominoes Kevin Gong offers download of his polyominoes games shareware for Windows and Mac. 100 boards are included. A Java version is under development. |
| Mathforum___a_Pentomino_Problem Geometry Forum: Lists the pentominoes; fold them to form a cube; play a pentomino game. (project of the month, 1995) |
| Mathforum___Minimal_Domino_Tiling Tiling a square without cutting it into two.(Problem of the week 826, Spring 1997) |
| Mathforum___Tiling_Rectangles_from_Ell Stan Wagon asks which rectangles can be tiled with an ell-tromino. |
| Maximum_Convex_Hulls_of_Connected_Systems_of_Segments_and_of_Polyominoes Bezdek, Brass, and Harborth. Abstract to an article which places bounds on the convex area needed to contain a polyomino. (Contributions to Algebra and Geometry Volume 35 (1994), No. 1, 37-43.) |
| Miroslav_Vicher\'s_Puzzles_Pages Polyforms (polyominoes, and polyiamonds) graphics, tables and resources (English/Czech). |
| My_Polyomino_Page Michael Reid's numerous articles on polyominoes and tilnig, with references and links. |
| Packing_Ferrers_Shapes Alon, Bóna, and Spencer show that one can't cover very much of an n by p(n) rectangle with staircase polyominoes (where p(n) is the number of these shapes). |
| Packing_Polyominoes Mark Michell investigates packing pentominoes into rectangles of various non-integer aspect ratios in order to obtain the largest possible pieces using straight cuts. |
| Packing_Shapes Erich Friedman's Introduction to a variety of packing and tiling problems. |
| Pairwise_Touching_Hypercubes Erich Friedman's problem of the month asks how to partition the unit cubes of an a*b*c-unit rectangular box into as many connected polycubes as possible with a shared face between every pair of polycu |
| Pentamini_Pentaminos_Pentominoes A container of mathematical games, gadgets and software. (English/Italian) |
| Pento Amamas Software offers a pentomino solving software. |
| Pento-Mania Pentomino based puzzle game lets children solve and create geometric puzzles. Win32 software, try or buy. |
| Pentomino_Applet Rujith de Silva's applet puzzle offers games of four different sized rectangles. Source code available. [Java] |
| Pentomino_Applet Fill up a given area using pentomino shapes, rotating and flipping them. Three levels of difficulty.[Java]. |
| Pentomino_Covers Problems on minimal covers. |
Click here to download pento.zip (22 kb).
The 12 PentominoesThe Polynominoes make interesting objects to study for mathematicians. That's why there are numerous websites devoted on them - for example click here for a site with very good introduction to Polynominoes.
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