Pentominoes app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
3424 ratings )
Games
Entertainment
Board
Puzzle
Developer: Marcel Nijman
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.5, last update: 7 years agoFirst release : 19 Dec 2009
App size: 3.79 Mb
How tough are you, really? Can you fit the twelve pieces onto the top board? And how fast can you do it?
Warning: This puzzle is not easy. :-)
Hint: you can cheat on the first level by looking at the icon of the app. :-)
After that, you are left on your own. Pentominoes contains hundreds of levels to solve, for hours of fun.
So, what if you just cant solve a certain level? No problem! Just drag all the pieces to the bottom of the board and shake the iPhone. The four black dots will be re-positioned and youre ready to start again. And next time you start the app, it starts right where you left off.
Enjoy!
Latest reviews of Pentominoes app for iPhone and iPad
Mission Impossible!
This Puzzle is almost impossible to solve! You would be throwing away 0.99 $ for simply contemplating the 12 Pentominoes shapes.. Oh yes.. you can copy the icon of the application.. but this is really a very poor consolation. However, this game could have a great potential if the following improvements were implemented: 1.) First of all, the game designer himself should know the solution of the puzzle at any level. And, consequently, the user should be able to ask for hints... There are more than 15000000 possible levels (exactly: 15,249,024 levels ( = 64x63x62x61)). Some of these levels have no solutions at all, and some have many solutions. There are efficient computer algorithms to rapidly find all solutions for a given level. In a first stage, I suggest to limit the game to the 16 symmetrical levels only. These are the levels where the four black dots are symmetrical with respect to the vertical and horizontal axes. All solutions should be kept in a data base. At Game start, a user would ask for an initial hint by tapping on a certain pentomino at will. That pentomino would then be placed by the program into the correct place. Beginners would ask for more subsequent hints, say seven successive hints. Then they would try to continue placing the remaining five Pentominoes on their own. Twelve consecutive hints per Game should be allowed. 2.) in a second stage, more complex levels (with non-symmetrical black dots) could be evaluated by the game-designer and added to his data base. This would enrich the game to almost any desired degree.
This Puzzle is almost impossible to solve! You would be throwing away 0.99 $ for simply contemplating the 12 Pentominoes shapes.. Oh yes.. you can copy the icon of the application.. but this is really a very poor consolation. However, this game could have a great potential if the following improvements were implemented: 1.) First of all, the game designer himself should know the solution of the puzzle at any level. And, consequently, the user should be able to ask for hints... There are more than 15000000 possible levels (exactly: 15,249,024 levels ( = 64x63x62x61)). Some of these levels have no solutions at all, and some have many solutions. There are efficient computer algorithms to rapidly find all solutions for a given level. In a first stage, I suggest to limit the game to the 16 symmetrical levels only. These are the levels where the four black dots are symmetrical with respect to the vertical and horizontal axes. All solutions should be kept in a data base. At Game start, a user would ask for an initial hint by tapping on a certain pentomino at will. That pentomino would then be placed by the program into the correct place. Beginners would ask for more subsequent hints, say seven successive hints. Then they would try to continue placing the remaining five Pentominoes on their own. Twelve consecutive hints per Game should be allowed. 2.) in a second stage, more complex levels (with non-symmetrical black dots) could be evaluated by the game-designer and added to his data base. This would enrich the game to almost any desired degree.
Awesome app
This is a great game its really fun
This is a great game its really fun
Glitch
I love this game..but theres some sort of glitch!! I somehow lost a piece an now I cant place..its off to the side or something..this game needs a reset button!!! Please fix this! Its a terribly addicting game..
I love this game..but theres some sort of glitch!! I somehow lost a piece an now I cant place..its off to the side or something..this game needs a reset button!!! Please fix this! Its a terribly addicting game..
Fix please.
I just paid money for this game because I heard great things about it. So as Im playing my yellow piece gets stuck somehow and cant be removed from its position at the bottom. Please fix this app asap. I cant play it until its fixed because I need the piece!
I just paid money for this game because I heard great things about it. So as Im playing my yellow piece gets stuck somehow and cant be removed from its position at the bottom. Please fix this app asap. I cant play it until its fixed because I need the piece!
buggy - please fix!
great game but controls need to be improved. yellow piece sometimes gets stuck below and game then needs to be reset. please fix this - thanks!
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great game but controls need to be improved. yellow piece sometimes gets stuck below and game then needs to be reset. please fix this - thanks!