Pentomino Oddities

A polyomino oddity is a symmetrical figure formed by an odd number of copies of a polyomino. Here are the minimal known oddities and extended oddities for the 12 pentominoes, as found mostly by Mike Reid and me. Click on the gray figures to expand them.

Holeless variants, composite solutions, and nontrivial variants are at the end of this page. Figures with green backgrounds have holeless variants with the same number of tiles.

Torsten Sillke was the first to investigate oddities.

For one-sided pentominoes, see One-Sided Pentomino Oddities. For hexominoes, see Hexomino Oddities.

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Holeless Variants

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Composite Solutions

Pentominoes T, U, and V have no known oddities of some types. However, they can form such oddities when combined in pairs.

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Nontrivial Variants

These solutions have irreducible multiple tilings.

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Last revised 2023-02-16.


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