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Pentominoes Brainteaser Puzzle No doubt about it: Pentominoes is like a Mensa test from Hades. It’s as if they took a typical I.Q. exam, ditched all the “Hat is to head as glove is to… ” and scrambled word stuff, and left you with all the spatial shapes questions. The equipment is diabolically simple: 12 three-dimensional polygons fashioned out of heavy oak, which are stored in a felt-bottomed oak frame. The enclosed booklet challenges solvers to use these pieces–which resemble anything from a plus sign to the letter L–to replicate the 54 designs and patterns shown on its pages, things like a 3-D pyramid and a 2-D rectangle. The fiends at Square Root Games magnanimously provide five solutions to the 54 challenges; if you want the other 49, you have to send them $5. –Tony Mason
Customer Review: Nice set of Pentominoes
The pentominoes set was made of oak wood and generally of high quality, shrink-wrapped with plastic over the set with a booklet describing the patterns that can be created. The set is on a board that is about 15in x 15in.