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Special solutions: Heptominoes plus
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Inspired by the star-shaped Poly-5 pattern, Jack Wetterer sent us this amazing star-shaped solution he found of the combined Poly-5, Sextillions and Heptominoes pieces all the polyomino shapes from 1 through 7 nested by size. All we could say was "Wow!"
Karl Wilk of Ontario, Canada, created this stunning "Pentomino Clock" pattern, where the 12 pentominoes represent the numbers on a clock. Notice how closely Karl managed to have the embedded pentominoes even look like the numerals they are to represent, or their initials, like T for twelve, N for nine, and V for Roman numeral 5 and X for Roman numeral 10. Karl's solution won the Gamepuzzles Annual Pentomino Excellence award for 2007. |
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And Mr. Wen-Hsien Sun, creator of the Chiu Chang Mathematics Foundation of Taiwan, and a great fan of Kadon products, sent us this unbelievable construction. Each of the 108 Heptominoes pieces is modeled in a triple-enlarged form, each consisting of a different arrangement of the 12 pentominoes plus a tromino. A total of 1404 pieces are needed for the full composition. Whew!
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