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published by Stu_1977_SEmelb on Sun, 08/15/2021 - 17:02
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Can someone please explain the part of the instructions where it says that it is permissible for a pentomino to contain more than one letter? If each letter must be part of a pentomino with that letter’s shape and every cell in the grid is part of exactly one pentomino (no overlap?) then how can this possibly be? I presume I am completely misinterpreting something.

Submitted by montelucci on Sun, 08/15/2021 - 18:00.

It means that a pentomino may contain more than one copy of the same letter; or in other words, two or more instances of the same letter may end up in the same pentomino.

The example puzzle doesn't really show this, but you could e.g. add another F clue directly below the given F and it would be still a valid puzzle.

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Submitted by Stu_1977_SEmelb on Mon, 08/16/2021 - 08:08.

Ohhh the SAME letter! The idea being that you don't know if those letters represent one piece or two pieces.. Right! Thank you, montelucci! :-)