This product contains 70 pentomino puzzles. You get some recognizable image (“silhouette”), such as one of a bird or a house. You have to recreate that image by combining the “pentomino” pieces given to you!
The puzzles start easy (only 4 pieces), but grow to the full set (12 pieces) towards the end.
Each puzzle has its own page, which allows you to use it like a “puzzle mat”: solve it by placing the pentominoes directly on the page, until you’ve filled the entire silhouette. That same page also has a hint and the full solution at the bottom.
But you can solve these puzzles on any surface (in any way you like), by simply picking a silhouette from the overview page to recreate.
These kinds of puzzles also have the nice feature, in practice, of being a good puzzle for adults too ;) Just try to solve some of the harder ones and wait until there’s a crowd around you trying to be helpful …
Can’t get enough of Pentominoes? Or you’d rather play a game with others instead of alone? Then try out Pentomino Games instead!
This product 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.
- Explainer page of what Pentominoes are and why you’d puzzle with them
- 2 pages with the full set of pentominoes to cut out + 2 pages with a LARGER version
- 2 Overview Pages showing all puzzles inside this bundle at one glance, sorted by difficulty
- 1 page with Bonus Exercises (mostly mathematical) about the shapes, their areas, and so forth + 1 page with the illustrated answers
- 70 pages with Pentomino Puzzles (from easy to hard, small to large)