Polyomino

polyform whose cells are squares

Polyominoes are shapes made from a finite number(side-to-side connected) unit squares on the standard plane. The following pairs of squares are not side-side connected:

The following pair is side-side connected:

Types of Polyomino edit

n name number of free polyominoes number of free polyominoes with holes number of one-sided polyominoes   = number of fixed polyominoes
1 monomino 1 0 1 1
2 domino 1 0 1 2
3 tromino/triomino 2 0 2 6
4 tetromino 5 0 7 19
5 pentomino 12 0 18 63
6 hexomino 35 0 60 216
7 heptomino 108 1 196 760
8 octomino 369 6 704 2,725
9 nonomino 1,285 37 2,500 9,910
10 decomino 4,655 195 9,189 36,446
11 undecomino 17,073 979 33,896 135,268
12 dodecomino 63,600 4,663 126,759 505,861

Trominoes (3-ominoes) edit

A polyomino made from three squares is a tromino. There are only two possible trominoes:

   

Tetrominoes (4-ominoes) edit

   

Pentominoes (5-ominoes) edit

 

      

 
 
 

Hexominoes (6-ominoes) edit

The 35 free hexominoes The 11 cubic nets
 
 

Heptominoes (7-ominoes) edit

 
 
90° reflection
 
45° reflection
 
Rotation
 
Both

Octominoes (8-ominoes) edit

 
 
90° reflection
 
45° reflection
 
C2 rotation
 
C4 rotation
 
Both

Permutominoes edit

 
 

Ferrer partitioning diagrams edit