Tiling puzzle
Tiling puzzles use two-dimensional shapes that have to be assembled into a larger given shape without overlaps (and often without gaps). Some tiling puzzles ask you to dissect a given shape first and then rearrange the pieces into another shape. Other tiling puzzles ask you to dissect a given shape while fulfilling certain conditions. The two latter types of tiling puzzles are also called dissection puzzles.
Tiling puzzles may be made from wood, metal, cardboard, plastic or any other sheet-material. Many tiling puzzles are now available as computer games.
Tiling puzzles have a long history. Some of the oldest and most famous are jigsaw puzzles and the Tangram puzzle.
More information related to tiling problems can be found under tiling.
Types of tiling puzzles include
- 2-dimensional puzzles
- 3-dimensional puzzles
- polycube puzzles
- others
- higher-dimensional puzzles
Examples of non-polysquare, non-polycube tiling puzzles
For other examples click polysquare puzzles or polycube puzzles.
- Floor Tilings - this computer game helps you create regular patterns (with about 200 examples of nowhere-neat tilings using two prototiles only)
- Isolattice - a collection of tiling puzzles on the 60-degree grid
- jigsaw puzzle - a picture cut into tiles with randomly curved outlines
- Jigsaw : a puzzle computer game
- Lattice - a collection of tiling puzzles on the square grid
- Max : a polyiamond puzzle
- Nutts : a polytan puzzle
- Polyhexes
- Polyhexes II : fill hexagons with copies of two given polyhexes.
- Serviettes
- Tangram : the classical tiling game
- Tangram : a computer version of the classical tiling game
- Tetrads : find examples of congruent and similar tetrads.
- Wang : (puzzle computer game) tile shapes with a set of 13 Wang tiles