tetromino
thumb|200px|The five free tetrominoes. thumb|A snapshot from a typical game of Tetris. A tetromino is a geometric shape composed of four squares, connected orthogonally (i.e. at the edges and not the corners). Tetrominoes, like dominoes and pentominoes, are a particular type of polyomino. The corresponding polycube, called a tetracube, is a geometric shape composed of four cubes connected orthogonally.
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15 sectionsContents
- Types of tetrominoes
- Free tetrominoes
- One-sided tetrominoes
- Fixed tetrominoes
- Tiling a rectangle
- Filling a rectangle with one set of tetrominoes
- Parity
- Filling a modified rectangle with one set of tetrominoes
- Filling a rectangle with two sets of tetrominoes
- Etymology
- Filling a box with tetracubes
- See also
- Previous and next orders
- References
- External links
thumb|200px|The five free tetrominoes. thumb|A snapshot from a typical game of Tetris. A tetromino is a geometric shape composed of four squares, connected orthogonally (i.e. at the edges and not the corners). Tetrominoes, like dominoes and pentominoes, are a particular type of polyomino. The corresponding polycube, called a tetracube, is a geometric shape composed of four cubes connected orthogonally.
A popular use of tetrominoes is in the video game Tetris created by the Soviet game designer Alexey Pajitnov, which refers to them as tetriminos. The tetrominoes used in the game are specifically the one-sided tetrominoes.