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PENTOMINO by Prof. Golomb - late 60`s - the "mother" of all Blokus, Ubongo etc. ... booklet, pieces and "puzzle grids"
PENTOMINO - Puzzle book cover with "egghead"
Comparison between PENTOMINO and Blokus tiles - over 30 years later.
Box cover
Starting the game after distributing tiles via cards

Pentomino (1969)

Players
2
Best: 2
Playing time
10–10 min
Age
7+
6.93
Average rating
84
Ratings
0.00/5
Weight
#13925
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Solomon W. Golomb
Publisher:Zimpfer Metallwarenfabrik
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 5, Interaction 5, Complexity 0, Theme 1
Strategy7.0
Luck5.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity0.0
Theme1.0

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Overview

Similar to Pan-Kai by Alex Randolph with two differences.

Pentomino is played on a 8 x 8 grid and contains the 12 pentomino tiles plus 12 cards to distribute six pentominoes to each player before the game. Players now alternately place one piece per turn on the board, until no tile can be placed anymore. The player who placed more tiles than the other, wins.

The original Pentominoes without the cards and tiles was solved by computers (http://www.msri.org/publications/books/Book29/files/orman.pdf); this version published by Zimpfer in 1969 contains 12 cards to randomly distribute the tiles between the players, making it an all new game.

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