Polyflaps or Polyflaptiles

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Polyflaps are formed from half a hexagon divided by lines from opposite midpoints. They form a subset of the polykites of triple the order and the polydrafters of six times the order. They are also called polyflaptiles.

 Monoflap - 1 (1 tile)

         

 Diflaps - 6 (12 tiles)

1 2 3 4 5 6

 Triflaps - 34 (102 tiles)

1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
   
31 32 33 34    

 

  For higher orders of polyflaps, the number of pieces is as follows:

  Tetraflaps - 281

  Pentaflaps - 2538

 

Puzzles using Polyflaps

 

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