How to Play Statue Park
1. Choose a shape
Click one of the five tetromino buttons under the board: the straight I, square O, T-piece, L-piece, or zigzag S. The selected shape glows.
2. Rotate and flip
Press R to cycle through all rotations and F to mirror the shape. A ghost preview follows your cursor over the grid, turning red if the spot is illegal.
3. Place all five
Click to drop the shape. Each shape is used exactly once. Shapes can't overlap, can't share an edge with another shape, and can't cover a white circle.
4. Keep space connected
All cells not covered by shapes must form one connected blob. Black circle clues tell you cells that must be inside a shape. Win when all five shapes are placed legally.
Tips & Strategy
- Start from black-circle clues: they pin down which cells a shape must cover, narrowing its orientation and position.
- White-circle clues carve out forbidden zones — shapes get squeezed between them, often forcing unique placements.
- Watch the connectivity rule: if placing a shape would cut the empty space into two separate islands, it's wrong.
- The I-tetromino is the longest (4 in a row) and often the most constrained — place it first or last.
- Click an already-placed shape on the board to pick it up again and reposition it.
About the Puzzle
Statue Park was created by Palmer Mebane in 2011, inspired by pentomino puzzles from Akil Oyunlari and the connectivity rules of Nikoli types. It appears regularly on Grandmaster Puzzles with over 80 official puzzles. GameZipper's 30 handcrafted levels all use the five free tetrominoes and every one has exactly one solution, verified by a backtracking solver.
Related Games
If you enjoy Statue Park, try Spiral Galaxies, Fill-a-Pix, Yajilin, and Nonogram for more logic puzzles.