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How to Make your own Pentominoes from Alphabet Blocks

Step 5Playing with the pentominoe pieces

Playing with the pentominoe pieces
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Now that you have a set of pentominoes, what do you do with them? You have twelve pieces, each made up of five blocks, or 60 blocks. Here are just some of the shapes you can make:

1 x 6 x 10 - 2339 solutions (not counting rotations and mirror images)

1 x 5 x 12 - 1010 solutions

1 x 4 x 15 - 368 solutions

1 x 3 x 20 - two solutions

2 x 5 x 6

3 x 4 x 5

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