Zucca's Challenge Problem for Polypents

Livio Zucca's Tetrominoes Challenge Page challenges you to find plane regions that can be tiled with each of a given set of tetrominoes and no others. Here I show solutions to the corresponding problem for some polypents. If you have a smaller solution for any of these sets, please let me know.

For extrominoes (trikings), see Zucca's Challenge Problem for Extrominoes. For polyiamonds, see Zucca's Challenge Problem for Polyiamonds. For tetrahexes, see Zucca's Challenge Problem for Tetrahexes.

  • Tripents
  • Tetrapents
  • Tripents

    Here is a compatibility diagram for the 2 tripents.

    Tetrapents

    Pairs

    Triples

    Quadruples

    Quintuples

    Last revised 2012-05-19.


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