Quintachex

Author: Kate Jones ~ Publisher: Kadon Enterprises ~ (1-4P 10+) ~ Find It!


The uniquely checkerboarded, reversible pieces are the 12 pentominoes plus a 2x2 square. They fill the 8½" tray as an 8x8 checkerboard in 1294 ways and serve for dozens of other puzzles plus three games. Two of the more stubborn puzzles are "the longest river"—forming a single band of one color—and the "uncheckerboard", where you try to have no single squares of a color.

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