Polyomino

Polyomino is a simple board game with polyominoes. The game can be played as a paper-and-pencil game.

Rules

• Each player has a set of polyomino tiles, except in the hexa variant.
• The first player places a blue polyomino tile and an orange polyomino tile.
• The second player continues as the blue player or switches sides and the first player continues as the blue player.
• The next tile must be placed so that it touches at least one tile of the same color with its corners. The edges of tiles of the same color must not touch.
• If a player cannot place a tile, they pass.
• When no move is available, the game ends. The player with the most tiles wins.

Variants

Mini. Played on a 8x8 board. Each player has 1 monomino, 1 domino, 2 trominoes and 5 tetrominoes.

Small. Played on a 12x12 board. Each player has two sets from the mini variant.

Penta. Played on a 14x14 board. Each player has 1 monomino, 1 domino, 2 trominoes, 5 tetrominoes and 12 pentominoes.

Hexa. Played on a 20x20 board. The game is played only with one common set of pieces: 1 monomino, 1 domino, 2 trominoes, 5 tetrominoes, 12 pentominoes and 35 hexominoes.