Tiling a Holey Hex-Convex Polyhex with Two Pentahexes

Introduction

A polyhex is a plane figure formed by joining equal regular hexagons edge to edge. A pentahex is a polyhex with 5 cells. There are 22 pentahexes, not distinguishing reflections and rotations.

A polyhex is said to be hex-convex if the shape formed by joining the centers of its adjacent cells is convex. Here I study the problem of arranging copies of two given pentahexes to form a hex-convex shape with any number of isolated monohex holes.

Nomenclature

Table of Results

This table shows the number of tiles in the smallest known vex2holeys. If you find a smaller vex2holey or solve an unsolved pair, please write.

 ACDEFHIJKLNPQRSTUVWXYZ
A•422694344334610122510344
C4•22466344443445364325
D22•3483243234337237326
E223•4644644344910436455
F6444•12441044478173244227411
H968612•63—4551210——34——5—
I463446•4633364610556736
J3324434•33223454334434
K444610—63•3431010——64——4—
L443444333•224556344343
N3424453242•34455226324
P34334532323•3334324524
Q43447126310443•61011241010410
R643481044105436•9103697310
S1043917—65—553109•—103——3—
T12571032—104—6541110—•1010——5—
U232443536323231010•410536
V563344534422463104•4544
W1047622—64—464109——104•—5—
X33347—74—335107——55—•5—
Y42254533442243353455•4
Z456511—64—3441010——64——4•

Navigation

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Last revised 2026-03-29.


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