Tiling a Holey Hex-Convex Polyhex with Two Pentahexes

Introduction

A polyhex is a plane figure formed by joining equal regular hexagons edge to edge. A pentahex is a polyhex with 5 cells. There are 22 pentahexes, not distinguishing reflections and rotations.

A polyhex is said to be hex-convex if the shape formed by joining the centers of its adjacent cells is convex. Here I study the problem of arranging copies of two given pentahexes to form a hex-convex shape with any number of isolated monohex holes.

Nomenclature

Table of Results

This table shows the number of tiles in the smallest known vex2holeys. If you find a smaller vex2holey or solve an unsolved pair, please write.

 ACDEFHIJKLNPQRSTUVWXYZ
A422694344334610122510344
C422466344443445364325
D223483243234337237326
E2234644644344910436455
F644412441044478173244227411
H968612634551210345
I4634464633364610556736
J332443433223454334434
K444610633431010644
L443444333224556344343
N342445324234455226324
P343345323233334324524
Q4344712631044361011241010410
R6434810441054369103697310
S1043917655531091033
T12571032104654111010105
U232443536323231010410536
V5633445344224631044544
W1047622644641091045
X3334774335107555
Y422545334422433534554
Z456511643441010644

Navigation

[2 Tiles] [3 Tiles] [4 Tiles] [5 Tiles] [6 Tiles] [7 Tiles] [8 Tiles] [9 Tiles] [10 Tiles] [11 Tiles] [12 Tiles] [17 Tiles] [22 Tiles] [32 Tiles]

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32 Tiles

Last revised 2026-03-29.


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