Literature
The first pentomino problem, written by Henry Dudeney was published in 1907 in the Canterbury Puzzles.
Pentominoes were featured in a prominent subplot of Arthur C. Clarke's novel Imperial Earth, published in 1975. They were also featured in Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer, which was published in 2003 and illustrated by Brett Helquist, as well as its sequels, The Wright 3 and The Calder Game.
Arthur Clarke also wrote an essay in which he described the game and how he got hooked on it. It was first published as 'Could you solve Pentominoes?' in the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, September 14, 1975. It is reprinted in Clarke's Ascent to Orbit: A Scientific Autobiography, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984.
In the New York Times crossword puzzle for June 27, 2012, the clue for an 11-letter word at 37 across was "Complete set of 12 shapes formed by this puzzle's black squares."
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