Pentomino Games

This game bundle contains 7 distinct games using the same material. All these games use the same set of pentomino pieces, and some of them can use (one of) the extra 30 boards. In fact, you can also play those games one one of the boards from Potent Pentominoes if you bought that product too!

We bundle them to save you ink and cutting, and to provide as much value as possible at once. The games are all clearly different, ranging from very easy to quite challenging, some being cooperative and some competitive. This means there is sure to be a game in there that fits your specific player(s). Especially the easiest games can surely be played with very young Apprentices.

The 30 Pentomino Puzzle Boards provided here are new ones, not found in Potent Pentominoes. But they’re random shapes, instead of looking like animals, as that is slightly more useful for the specific games that need them.

This product also includes the massive Pre-Reader Prompt Cards product for free! You need it for one of the games, and it felt bad to ask you to buy it just for that.

This project is part of “Tessella’s Toolbox”. “Tessellation” means the act of dividing a larger shape or image into smaller parts, such as creating a mosaic or a jigsaw puzzle. Pentominoes are just one of many ways to do this, as this bundle asks you to combine them in such a way that you recreate the image of an animal or other common object. If you liked this, check out the many other puzzles/challenges in this project. A good recommendation is to play the Tricksy Tangrams

Continue Exploring

Exhausted this resource? Below is a list of all resources (in this and other factions) around this same topic.

• The Shapesquare Stories
• Pentomino Games
• Tangram Games
• Court of King Triangle
• Defend the Palishapes!
• Fortis
• Game of Shapelock
• Shapastimes
• Shapeways
• Spinnershapes
• Strateshape
• Potent Pentominoes
• Tricksy Tangrams
• Jigsaw Puzzlepack
• Shapelings
• Quiz of Shape
• The Treasure of Squaro
• The Colorshape Tests
• My First Shapes
• Shape Animal Cards
• Shapeseeing

Product Contents

Below is a summary of this product's contents. The actual product might have even more inside, but never less.

• 7 unique games that all play with Pentomino pieces in different ways (1-page rulebook each)
• 2 pages with shared material (lots of Pentomino pieces; double-sided if wanted)
• 30 pages of extra, diverse Pentomino boards/grids to play on (needed for half the games)
• 1 PDF with Pre-Reader Prompt Cards

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