Polysquare puzzle
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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
- Tetris (and its various clones)
- Ypento
- Y-Primes
See also: Tiling puzzle
External references
- Math Problem 'Square the Rectangle' (http://karl.kiwi.gen.nz/prosqtre.html)
- Math problem 'Square the Square' (http://karl.kiwi.gen.nz/prosqtsq.html)
Reference
- Solomon Golomb, Polyominoes, Princeton University Press, 1994.Template:Math-stub