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Tiling puzzles arepuzzles involving two-dimensionalpacking problems in which a number offlat shapes have to be assembled into a larger given shape without overlaps (and often without gaps).^[1] Some tiling puzzles ask players todissect a given shape first and then rearrange the pieces into another shape. Other tiling puzzles ask players to dissect a given shape while fulfilling certain conditions. The two latter types of tiling puzzles are also calleddissection puzzles.

Tiling puzzles may be made fromwood,metal,cardboard,plastic or any other sheet-material. Many tiling puzzles are now available ascomputer games.

Tiling puzzles have a long history. Some of the oldest and most famous arejigsaw puzzles and thetangram puzzle.

Other examples of tiling puzzles include:

• Conway puzzle
• Domino tiling, of which themutilated chessboard problem is one example
• Eternity puzzle
• Geometric magic square
• Puzz-3D
• Squaring the square
• Tantrix
• T puzzle

Many three-dimensionalmechanical puzzles can be regarded as three-dimensional tiling puzzles.

• Dissection puzzle
• Edge-matching puzzle
• Polyforms
• Sliding puzzle
• Tessellation

• Tiling puzzles
• Tessellation

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