Polyomino

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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

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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

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

  

The 35 free hexominoes The 11 cubic nets

90° reflection

45° reflection

Rotation

Both

90° reflection

45° reflection

C2 rotation

C4 rotation

Both