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Gamepuzzles
Polyomino and polyform games and puzzles manufactured by Kadon Enterprises Inc.

Some Variations on the Theme of Polyomino
Looks at patterns that illustrate how the squares of polyominos are connected to each other.

Polyominoes
Describes a numerical invariant that can be used to classify polyominoes.

Polyominoes: Theme and Variations
A brief essay with some references.

The Geometry Junkyard: Polyominoes
Numerous links, sorted alphabetically.

Polyomino and Polyhex Tiling
Joseph Myer's tables of polyominoes and of polyomino tilings, in Postscript format.

Steve and Susan's Puzzles
Handmade wooden Pentomino and other puzzles; books.

Xominoes
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.

Miroslav Vicher's Puzzles Pages
Polyforms (polyominoes, and polyiamonds) graphics, tables and resources (English/Czech).

Gerard's Universal Polyomino Solver
Computes from 1 to 3.38 billion solutions with graphic display to each of the 60+ problems of different sizes and shapes. Pieces vary from pentominoes to heptominoes, sometimes in combination. Table summarizes properties and example solution of each problem. [Java required].






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