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Web Sites in Category Polyominoes

Gerard's Universal Polyomino Solver - Java code that can work out solutions for any of over 60 problems, some with hundreds and thousands of solutions.

A Puzzle - Every square can be dissected into L-ominoes. Can every Pythagorean square?

Animal Enumeration - Enumeration on regular tilings of the Euclidean and Hyperbolic planes.

CalmPlex - Manufactures wooden puzzles of polyomino type. Includes Prices, tips, hints and pages with solution counts.

Christopher Monckton's Eternity Puzzle - Rules, the solution by Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan, other resources and links.

Counting Horizontally Convex Polyominoes - Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 2 (1999), Article 99.1.8

Eithan's Pentominoes-3D Applet Solver - Java applet which solves the Pentominoes 3D puzzle. General informations and data.

Eternity Page - Alex Selby's page with a description of his solution method.

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

Golygons - Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees, defined by A.K. Dewdney.

Hepto - Some packings of the 108 heptominoes (with unit thickness) into various blocks.

Information on Pentomino Puzzles - At the Combinatorial Object Server.

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

Official Eternity Puzzle Website - A range of ingenious tiling puzzles with a 1 million pound sterling prize, recently won.

Packing Polyominoes - Contains two GIF animations of 3D polyomino packing including 5 polyominoes packed in a 3x3x3 cube and 9 polyominoes packed in a 4x4x4 cube.

Pentamini pentaminos pentominoes - A container of mathematical games, gadgets and software.

Pentomino Covers - Problems on minimal covers.

Pentomino Homepage - Graphics, software, links. In English and French.

Pentomino Puzzle Software - Pentomino based puzzle game lets children solve and create geometric puzzles. Win32 software, download free time-limited demo version.

Pentomino Relationships - Symmetries in the families of rectangular solutions.

Pentominoe - 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.

Pentominos - Graphics (including animated GIF) and links.

Pentominos Puzzle Solver - A Java applet for solving pentomino puzzles.

Polyomino and Polyhex Tiling - Tables of polyominoes and of polyomino tilings, in Postscript format.

Polyomino Fuzion game - Puzzles using pentominoes and hexominoes and a polyomino shareware game called Fuzion that designs and (semi-)automatically finds puzzle solutions.

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

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

Puzzle Fun - Newsletter edited by Rodolfo Kurchan about pentominoes and other math problems.

Schröder Triangles, Paths, and Parallelogram Polyominoes - A paper on their enumeration by Elisa Pergola and Robert A. Sulanke.

Solomon W. Golomb - Home Page of the inventor of polyominoes. Includes biography, black and white picture, research interests and publications list.

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

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

Taniguchi's Programs - Windows software to solve polyiamond and sliding block puzzles.

The Geometry Junkyard: Polyominoes - Numerous links, sorted alphabetically.

The Pentomino-Dictionary - The English words which can be written with the pentomino name letters FILNPTUVWXYZ and other pentomino curiosities.

The Pentominos Puzzle - This is a fast Pentominos puzzle solver. Works on DOS/Windows platform.

The Poly Pages - Information on the various polyforms - polyominoes, polyiamonds, polycubes, and polyhexes.

Thorleif's SOMA Page - SOMA puzzle site with graphics, newsletter and software.

Tiling and Packing Results of Torsten Sillke - Polyominoes, polycubes and polyspheres.

Tiling UROP Homepage - Undergraduate Research Project in Random Tilings.

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.

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