On: Questions I would ask God about the game of Go

[darkkindness]

After tetrominos, purely mathematical games with pentomino tiling at its core are definitely discovered games. It's doable but not always simple to build a given shape of size 5n with n pentominos. Ever seen the "fill an n by m rectangle with pentominoes" problem?

As an aside, my favorite variant of this is from an old game Puzzle Pirates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQIHyC__kc

[tslocum → darkkindness]

I published a tutorial on procedurally generating pentominos:

https://rocketnine.space/post/tetris-1/