DIY Pentomino Puzzle using Lego | puzzle for kids

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Pentomino puzzle is a tiling puzzle, just like how the game of Tetris is. Pentomino puzzle is made of 12 Pentominoes.

Pentominoes are shapes made of five equal-sized square pieces that are joined together from edge to edge. To arrange these five squares, there are only twelve different ways. These twelve shapes are named T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, F, I, L, P and N. It is based on the letter of the alphabet that most closely resembles it.

In a typical Pentomino puzzle, we had to to tile a rectangular box with the pentominoes ie cover it without overlaps and without gaps.

Each of the 12 pentominoes has an area of 5 unit squares, so the area of the rectangular box has to be 60 units.