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Dev tools · September 29, 2015

Make a rectangle – a puzzle game

pentomino puzzle. Contribute to kelukelugames/makeabox development by creating an account on GitHub.

Make a rectangle – a puzzle game launched on September 29, 2015 with 23 votes, #1,423 of 3,463 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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Make a Rectangle is a pentomino puzzle game hosted on GitHub. Players arrange pentomino pieces to form rectangular shapes, solving spatial logic puzzles. The project is open for community contributions through GitHub. It's designed for puzzle enthusiasts and developers interested in contributing to or forking the game's development.

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