

Manually define or edit the shapes of the pieces. The program has a number of screens, which you can select using the tabs along the top, as well as a file menu. In the former case you can save/load puzzles to file as well. The program can be run as a local application, or as an applet in a webpage if your browser allows it.Solutions found by the solver can be displayed.There is a fairly powerful built-in solver.A puzzle can be uploaded to the server for everyone to share.Pieces can be placed on the board manually.Complete sets of pieces can easily be generated.Multiple pieces of the same shape are allowed.The rotations and/or reflections of pieces can be generated automatically, or user defined.The board and the pieces are completely user defined.The grid can vary square grid for polyominoes, or various other grids for polyiamonds, polyhexes, polytans, polydrafters, and many more.I have tried to make this applet both versatile and easy PolySolver is a Java application with which you can make and solve many polyform problems, suchĪs puzzles involving pentominoes, hexiamonds, or many other such tile sets, with which you They contain 5×12=60 squares all together, and can in fact be arranged The best known polyformsĪre the twelve pentominoes, which are all the shapes that can be made by gluing 5 squaresĮdge to edge. Polyforms are shapes built up from identical parts glued together. Given to this page, or to Jaap's Puzzle Page. Provided that its copyright message remains intact and a link is The program may be freely used or adapted for use on any other website If your browser can still run Java applets, you can start Polysolver byĬlicking this link: Launch PolySolver Applet the Java runtime environment), go to Most web browsers no longer allow Java appets to run on a webpage due to security concerns.

jar file extension should be associated with it. Run that on your computer directly, by double-clicking the file.įor this to work you will need a recent version of Java installed in yourĬomputer, and the. To run the program is to simply download the jar file below, and
