Pentominoes Review
Each piece, called a pentominoe, represents one of only 12 ways in which 5 squares of equal size can be joined edge to edge. Confused? You haven't even tried it yet! Create 2D and 3D shapes using various combinations of the pieces. A booklet with 50 shapes is included. This baffling and beautiful wooden brainteaser puzzle measures 9 x 9 x 1 ¼. Read more...
Pentominoes Specifications
No doubt about it: Pentominoes is like a Mensa test from Hades. It's as if they took a typical I.Q. exam, ditched all the "Hat is to head as glove is to... " and scrambled word stuff, and left you with all the spatial shapes questions. The equipment is diabolically simple: 12 three-dimensional polygons fashioned out of heavy oak, which are stored in a felt-bottomed oak frame. The enclosed booklet challenges solvers to use these pieces--which resemble anything from a plus sign to the letter L--to replicate the 54 designs and patterns shown on its pages, things like a 3-D pyramid and a 2-D rectangle. The fiends at Square Root Games magnanimously provide five solutions to the 54 challenges; if you want the other 49, you have to send them . --Tony Mason
