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Questions tagged [tetris]

For questions about the game of Tetris, or puzzles which involve or relate to this game. Not for general puzzles involving tetrominoes, which may be tagged [polyomino] instead.

The 7 Tetris pieces are:

Tetris pieces

which are the 5 free tetrominos with chirality.

More information on Tetris can be found here.

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BOOM! Perfect Clear for Mr. T

In Tetris, Mr. T loves performing Perfect Clears, when a piece clears all lines in the playing field. As you might guess, when it comes to tetriminos, he has a personal favorite: the undeniably cutest O piece. But a Perfect Clear using only O pieces…
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Three Tetris Mini-Puzzles

Every man dog and millipede on the planet knows there are seven possible pieces in Tetris. In each of the following puzzles Joe Bloggs wants to achieve something specific within the first seven moves, without repeating any pieces. Assume that (1)…
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Is it possible to make a game of Tetris un-winnable?

Here's a puzzle I've been thinking about for a while, but still don't have an answer to. Lets say a friend is playing Tetris, but instead of the computer picking pieces at random you get to choose which pieces are added. (Unlike the computer you do…
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