#pentominoes

[anarchychess]

What do I do in this position?

I was trying to finish this Queen endgame which I was obviously going to win, but then some idiot started placing these weird colored shapes on the board! They look kinda like dominoes, but with five squares... really deranged stuff.

[violetfractal]

[puzzlenation]

PuzzleNation Product Review: Jetpack Joyride

In today's blog post, we test our puzzly mettle (and Tetris skills) against the many obstacles in Jetpack Joyride! It's our latest product review!

[Image courtesy of Board Game Geek.]

There are many games where the goal is to get from Point A to Point B. But rarely are those games as simple to learn, as engaging to master, or as satisfying to puzzle out as Jetpack Joyride.

Mobile gamers may recognize that name from the popular app making the rounds a few years ago. While the basic concept remains the same for the board game version, the…

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[absurdistgirlie]

hey

wastoid girl / jeff the brotherhood

"don’t kick me out, I’m too wasted and I can’t get home"

[thefreakpotatohead]

Don’t forget that sometimes little things can appear big and big things little - and that what you notice first isn’t always what you’re looking for.

Blue Balliet, about Pentominoes

[snowchou]

#pentominoes #woodenpuzzles #xxplan #pentofigures 十三孔，超美。难度超高。伤脑筋十二块，隔阵子就拿出来玩玩。

[protagonistforhire]

Nativity pentominoes

Remember pentominoes?  They’re the simple geometric figures made up of five squares , sort of like Tetris pieces on steroids.  You arrange them to form classic shapes or fun designs. 

While I was flipping through the work of the amazing Japanese jigsaw artist Saburo Oguro I realized I could fit a Nativity scene pretty nicely into a pentomino set.  I’ve always been drawn to religious art, not out of any particularly pious impulse, but because it’s the visual vocabulary for Western art.  You could almost say that it’s the jazz standard of images.

It wasn’t too tricky:

I designed the pieces in Inkscape.  It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get used to it, Inkscape is remarkably slick!

I used birch plywood leftover from Keyboard.IO prototyping

Jesse laser-cut them for me at the local storefront laser-cutting shop (I have to say that again. Local storefront laser-cutting shop. Isn’t living in the future amazing?)  wanted to print them on our 3D printer, but it caught on fire and hadn’t come back from repairs.

I sanded, stained, and sealed them by hand in our 1950s vintage basement workshop.

I’ve put a few sets up on Etsy.

If you’d rather laser-cut them yourself (or print a paper version), you can grab the design from Google Drive.

Merry Christmas!