Welcome to Gerard's Pentomino Page Introduction The basic set of pentominoes consists of twelve different pieces (excluding the ones that are identical by rotating and flipping). To make it easier to talk about the pieces, they are given names, as indicated. These names were first proposed by Solomon W. Golomb in his excellent book "Polyominoes". This book discusses polyominoes in general, and has a large section about pentominoes. Solomon Golomb can be considered the "inventor" or ...

Pentominos Puzzle Solver THE APPLET ON THIS PAGE can solve pentominos puzzles. The applet appears as a button bellow. When you click this button, the program itself is opened in a separate window. This applet requires Java 1.4 or higher. You can find an older and much simpler version that works with any version of Java at http://math.hws.edu/xJava/Pentominos_old/. The image at the left shows a puzzle that was solved by the program. Each color represents one of the 12 possible pentominos, whi ...