

Pentomino
Score
6.4
Players
2
Time
10
Recommended Age
7+
Difficulty
not provided
Official Website
Not provided
Type
game
categories
mechanics
designers
artists
No artists found
Description
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.