


If they reach the top of the play area, the game is over.Īccording to legend, the game's creator, Alexey Pajitnov, nearly didn't complete the game he was too addicted to playing the prototype. You gain more points for making multiple lines at once - in the standard rules, the maximum number of lines that you can make at once is four, a "Tetris".Īs you continue to play, the blocks fall faster and faster. Once you form a line, all blocks in that line vanish, and everything above them falls down one level. Tetriminoes note not a typo The Tetris Company prefers this spelling over the standard "tetromino" (puzzle pieces made from four square blocks) are falling down the screen, and you must arrange them into lines by moving them around your workspace and rotating them. Their invasion was called Tetris (Russian: "Тетрис"). Pig with the Face of a Boy, " A Complete History of the Soviet Union as Told by a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris "Ĭontrary to popular belief, the Russians did invade during the Cold War and even won - it just went unnoticed, because they were crafty about it.
