Printable pentominoes
Everything you need for a paper pentomino puzzle: the 12 pieces to cut out, blank boards to fill, and three worksheets with an answer key. Choose A4 or Letter, then print or save as PDF.
All 12 pentominoes, arranged as one 6 × 10 rectangle. Glue the page onto thin card, then cut along the thick lines only — dashed lines are inside a piece. Each square is ¾ inch (19 mm), the same size as the blank boards.
Fill every square with all 12 pieces. There are 2,339 different ways to do it.
Harder: the same 12 pieces, narrower box (1,010 solutions).
A chessboard with the middle 2 × 2 blocked leaves 60 squares — exactly the 12 pieces (65 solutions).
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Fill each box using only the pieces shown. Every box has exactly one answer (turning the whole box around does not count as new).
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Some pieces are already in place. Fit the missing pieces into the white squares — each puzzle has only one way to finish.
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Same rules: place the missing pieces in the white squares. The dark squares in the 8 × 8 are the hole.
Answers computed with the PuzzlePave pentomino solver; each puzzle was checked to have a single solution.
Tick the sheets you want: the 12 cut-out pieces, blank 6×10, 5×12 or 8×8 boards, the three worksheets and the answer key.
Choose A4 or US Letter, and Colour or Ink saver (white pieces with letters and bold cut lines).
Press “Print / Save as PDF”. In the dialog keep the scale at 100% (Actual size); choose Save as PDF to download a file instead of printing.
Glue the pieces page onto thin card and cut along the thick lines only. The squares are ¾ inch, the same as the blank boards, so the pieces fit straight onto them.
Fill the little boxes and finish the part-solved rectangles. Each puzzle has exactly one answer, which is on the answer-key page.
Not sure which piece is which? See the 12 pentomino shapes explained. Stuck on a blank board? Read how to solve a pentomino puzzle, let the pentomino solver find an answer, or browse all 2,339 6×10 solutions. For a quick screen break, play the free packing puzzle or the polyomino puzzle.
Yes. Press “Print / Save as PDF” and pick “Save as PDF” (or “Microsoft Print to PDF”) as the printer. The page is laid out for A4 and US Letter, one sheet per page.
Each square is ¾ inch (19 mm) when printed at 100% scale, so the full set of 12 pieces makes a 4½ × 7½ inch rectangle. Blank boards use the same square size.
Worksheet 1 (little boxes with 3 to 6 pieces) works well from about age 6. Worksheets 2 and 3, finishing a rectangle, suit older children and adults. Every puzzle has a single solution.
They were computed with the PuzzlePave pentomino solver, and each puzzle was checked by the solver to have exactly one solution.
Yes, the sheets are free to print for home and classroom use. Please link to this page rather than re-uploading the files.