Pentomino
A pentomino is a polyomino of five squares. The ancient pentomino puzzle uses free pentominoes.
The shapes
There are 12 free pentominoes. Six of them are chiral, making a total of 18 one-sided pentominoes.
Symmetric
I |
T |
U | |||
V |
W |
X |
Chiral
These come in mirrored pairs:
F |
Z |
L | |||
Y |
N |
P |
Naming conventions
There is no universally agreed upon convention for naming one-sided pentominoes.
Game / Convention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wikipedia[1] | I | V | T | U | W | X | J | L | N' | N | Y | Y' | P | Q | F | F' | Z | S | ||||||||||||||||||
Jstris[2] | I5 | V5 | T5 | U5 | W5 | X5 | J5 | L5 | S5 | Z5 | TL | TJ | OZ | OS | TS | TZ | LL | JJ | ||||||||||||||||||
Techmino[3] | I5 | V | T5 | U | W | X | J5 | L5 | H | N | Y | R | P | Q | F | E | Z5 | S5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Spirit Drop | I5 | V5 | T5 | U5 | W5 | X5 | J5 | L5 | h5 | h'5 | y5 | r5 | P5 | Q5 | f'5 | f5 | S5 | Z5 |
Official games that use pentominoes
Incomplete.
- Tetris 2 + Bombliss in Bombliss mode.
- Magical Tetris Challenge in Magical Tetris mode.
- Tetris 64 in Bio Tetris mode.
- Pokémon Tetris
- Puyo Puyo Tetris in Party mode.
- Tetris Effect as a signature attack of the boss Capricorn.
Non-official games that use pentominoes
Very incomplete.
- Jstris in Penta and All-29 piece sets.
- Pentix
- EGAint, depending on the piece set.
- Techmino
- Spirit Drop