MiniMatch:  other matching shapes

Here are some additional symmetrical shapes to solve by color-matching the 9 MiniMatch tiles. Their symmetries can be mirror (reflection), diagonal or rotational. Wherever any two tiles touch each other on edges or at corners, their colors must match. You are welcome to print out this page to add to your MiniMatch booklet.

Shapes made of 9 squares evenly joined on their edges are also known as enneominoes. The ones we show here are just a few of the dizzying total of 1285 different shapes. All of those can also serve as a MiniMatch color-matching challenge, if you'd like to tackle them. The hardest ones are, of course, the "chunky" shapes that have the most contact edges.

The last figure, the staggered square, is not a true enneomino, but it's fun to solve by matching the tiles on half-sides.







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