The Pentagon Tiles

This challenging puzzle was part of the Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange that was held at IPP32 (International Puzzle Party) hosted in Washington, DC in August of 2012

Your “Mission Impossible” from THE PENTAGON, Washington…
– Choose a set of 9 pieces by excluding one of the 4 PentaPenTiles (3 possible sets).
– Place the 9 pieces of the set into the frame and achieve the following challenges:

1. no symmetry requirement
2. the gaps are distributed symmetrically (5-fold symmetry)
3. 2 gaps have the shape of a pentagram (star)

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Designed by: René Dawir
Made by: Marcel Gillen