Received by the editors October 22, 2018; revised February 14, 2019. Published online on Cambridge Core August 30, 2019. Author G. T. D. was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities CCNU19TS071. Author C. T. L. was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China grant 11601403, China Scholarship Council and Research and Innovation Initiatives of WHPU 2018Y18. Author S. M. N. was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China grants 11771136 and 11271122, the Hunan Province Hundred Talents Program, Construct Program of the Key Discipline in Hunan Province, and a Faculty Research Scholarly Pursuit Funding from Georgia Southern University. AMS subject classification: 28A80, 52C22, 05B45, 51M20. Keywords: self-aõne tile, connectedness, ball-like tile.