Polyominoes Recreations Math

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• - Of Jay Jenicek. Includes software for a game described on the page (2-3 players).
  
• - Graphics (including animated GIF) and links.
  
• - Polyomino and polyform games and puzzles manufactured by Kadon Enterprises Inc.
  
• - Manufactures wooden puzzles of polyomino type. Includes Prices, tips, hints and pages with solution counts.
  
• - Livio Zucca finds a set of markings for the edges of a square that lead to exactly 100 possible tiles, and asks how to fit them into a 10x10 grid.
  
• - Handmade wooden Pentomino and other puzzles; books.
  
• - A paper on their enumeration by Elisa Pergola and Robert A. Sulanke.
  
• - Alex Selby's page with a description of his solution method.
  
• - Pentomino pictures, software and other resources by Guenter Albrecht-Buehler.
  
• - Soma-solving program in QBASIC by Courtney McFarren.
  
• - Information on the various polyforms - polyominoes, polyiamonds, polycubes, and polyhexes.
  
• - Numerous links, sorted alphabetically.
  
• - Rules, the solution by Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan, other resources and links.
  
• - At the Combinatorial Object Server.
  
• - Every square can be dissected into L-ominoes. Can every Pythagorean square?
  
• - A brief essay with some references.
  
• - Enumeration on regular tilings of the Euclidean and Hyperbolic planes.
  
• - A Java applet for solving pentomino puzzles.
  
• - Windows software to solve polyiamond and sliding block puzzles.
  
• - Tables of polyominoes and of polyomino tilings, in Postscript format.
  
• - This is a fast Pentominos puzzle solver. Works on DOS/Windows platform.
  
• - A container of mathematical games, gadgets and software.
  
• - SOMA puzzle site with graphics, newsletter and software.
  
• - Java applet which solves the Pentominoes 3D puzzle. General informations and data.
  
• - Pentomino based puzzle game lets children solve and create geometric puzzles. Win32 software, download free time-limited demo version.
  
• - Newsletter edited by Rodolfo Kurchan about pentominoes and other math problems.
  
• - Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 2 (1999), Article 99.1.8
  
• - Graphics, software, links. In English and French.
  
• - Home Page of the inventor of polyominoes. Includes biography, black and white picture, research interests and publications list.
  
• - Undergraduate Research Project in Random Tilings.
  
• - Problems on minimal covers.
  
• - The English words which can be written with the pentomino name letters FILNPTUVWXYZ and other pentomino curiosities.
  
• - Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees, defined by A.K. Dewdney.
  
• - Defined as square shapes that are directly connected to one another by one side, such as dominoes. Includes illustrations and a contest. In Dutch, French and English.
  
• - Contains two GIF animations of 3D polyomino packing including 5 polyominoes packed in a 3x3x3 cube and 9 polyominoes packed in a 4x4x4 cube.
  
• - Some packings of the 108 heptominoes (with unit thickness) into various blocks.
  
• - Looks at patterns that illustrate how the squares of polyominos are connected to each other.
  
• - Puzzles using pentominoes and hexominoes and a polyomino shareware game called Fuzion that designs and (semi-)automatically finds puzzle solutions.
  
• - Symmetries in the families of rectangular solutions.
  
• - Polyominoes, polycubes and polyspheres.
  
• - Polyforms (polyominoes, and polyiamonds) graphics, tables and resources.
  
• - Describes a numerical invariant that can be used to classify polyominoes.