

To clear a line, fill every square within a single row. Goal: Put your organizational skills and endurance to the test by clearing as many lines as possible.Ĭlear lines: Maneuver the falling Tetriminos to fit them together within the Matrix. How fortunate it is, then, that Tetris'd three rules are what shape it into such an award-winning game. A completely random environment offers no clue as to how to play and would be incredibly frustrating. Rules give much needed structure to our play. Tetris has very simple rules: you can only move the pieces in specific ways your game is over if your pieces reach the top of the screen and you can only remove pieces from the screen by filling all the blank space in a line. If the Blocks land above the top of the playing field, the game is over. Lines are cleared when they are filled with Blocks and haveĪs lines are cleared, the level increases and Tetriminos fall faster, making the game progressively more challenging. The player must rotate, move, and drop the falling Tetriminos inside the Matrix (playing field). The goal of Tetris is to score as many points as possible by clearing horizontal lines of Blocks. Tetris has epitomized the “easy to learn difficult to master” design principle for over 30 years.
