Statue Park
Statue Park is a placement-based logic puzzle invented by Palmer Mebane and first published on September 23, 2011. The puzzle is inspired by geometric packing concepts and features a set of polyomino shapes that must all be placed into the grid without overlap.
Every cell in the grid must either be covered by a shape or remain a designated empty space, and the given black cells act as mandatory “statues,” indicating that at least one cell of a placed shape must occupy each marked position. The result is a spatially elegant and highly logical challenge that blends deduction with geometric intuition, and has since become a popular genre in logic puzzle competitions.
Every cell in the grid must either be covered by a shape or remain a designated empty space, and the given black cells act as mandatory “statues,” indicating that at least one cell of a placed shape must occupy each marked position. The result is a spatially elegant and highly logical challenge that blends deduction with geometric intuition, and has since become a popular genre in logic puzzle competitions.
Rules
Place the given pentominoes set into the grid. Pentominoes may be rotated and reflected. Pentominoes can not share an edge, but they can touch diagonally. All black circles are occupied by pentominoes. All white circles should remain empty. All of the space not occupied by pentominoes must be connected orthogonally.
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