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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tetris .. where?
Message-ID: <16810@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 18:58:01 GMT
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In article <853@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb) writes:
>One thing I'd really like to see in a Tetris-like game is different
>polyominoes.  Dominoes are trivial, as are triominoes, but pentominoes
>would be quite a challenge.  Hexominoes would be damn near impossible,
>I suspect.  And let people set the depth & width of the playing field, too.

Actually "pentominoes" would be quite impossible.  You can't fill a
plane with regular pentagons.  "Hexominoes" on the other hand is quite
possible.


-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP