Nagoya University Polyomino World

Common Multiple Shape Puzzle is defined as the task of finding, for given finite sets S₁, S₂, …, S_n of polyominoes, a common shape that can be tiled by S₁, S₂, …, S_n, respectively. For each set S_i, multiple copies of polyominoes can be used.

• F5-I5-Q4
• F5-W5-Q4
• N5-Z5-Q4
• X5-L5-N4

• Tetromino-Pentomino
• Pento-Pento-Tetrominoes

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Mutsunori Banbara
Professor
Nagoya University
Graduate School of Informatics
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ward, Nagoya-city, 464-8601