Knight's-Move Cell Shifts for Polyominoes
Introduction
Two figures can be tiled with copies of the same
polyomino.
The figures differ in only one cell.
Can the different cells lie a knight's move apart?
Thanks to Jenard Cabilao for suggesting this problem.
Here I show minimal known solutions for polyominoes of orders 3, 5, and 7.
Cell shifts for polyominoes of even order must preserve parity,
so they cannot be a knight's move apart.
If you can solve any of the unsolved cases,
please let me know.
Trominoes
Impossible
Pentominoes
Impossible
Birotary Variants
Heptominoes
Impossible
Unsolved
Birotary Variants
Unsolved Cases
Last revised 2014-02-14.
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Col. George Sicherman
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