Galvagni Figures & Reid Figures for Polycairinos

A cairo is a pentagon with at least four sides equal and forming two nonconsecutive right angles. A polycairino is a plane figure formed by joining cairos at edges or corners or both on the polycairo grid.

A Galvagni figure is a figure that can be tiled by a polyform in more than one way—a kind of self-compatibility figure. A Reid figure is a Galvagni figure without holes. Galvagni figures and Reid figures first appeared in Erich Friedman's Math Magic for November 2004.

Here are minimal known Galvagni figures for polycairinos.

See also Galvagni Figures & Reid Figurs for Polycairos.

Dicairinos

Impossible

Tricairinos

Impossible

Reid Figure

Tetracairinos

Impossible

Mirror Variants

Last revised 2026-04-24.


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