

2003, Tandy Warnow, Binhai Zhu, Computing and combinatorics: 9th annual international conference Maximizing the number of tetrises (the number of times that four rows are cleared in a Tetris game) is NP-complete.See figure 3 for an example of a logical decision tree that indicates whether there is a possibility to score a tetris. 1995, Kurt Driessens, "Relational Reinforcement Learning", in Recent Trends in Data Type Specification, page 276.1990, Et cetera, Volumes 47-48 For some it's staying low on the play field, steadily advancing through the levels, for others its trying to clear the board entirely or scoring an unprecedented number of tetrises.( video games, by extension ) The act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris.( figuratively ) An endeavor involving rearranging things of different shape into a physical space. The resulting design was a game that used seven distinctive geometric playing pieces, each made up of four squares.there were some other guys there who were into cosplay-that's costume play-and their thing was, they were dressed as Tetris blocks. 2008, Daniel Radosh, Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, page 213.You just interrupted a one-hour Tetris marathon. I've been staring at that screen for three days. 2007, David Skibbins, The Star: A Tarot Card Mystery, page 147įrom the kitchen the guy said, "I write science fiction.In placements produced by Feng Shui, the cells are closely packed. The tetris method does have some shortcomings, however. 2007, David Chinnery, Kurt William Keutzer, Closing the Power Gap between ASIC & custom, page 234.All I had to do was put each one in its bright, satisfying place. When people spoke to me, the sounds of their words were Tetris shapes, falling. 2005, Rachel DeWoskin, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China, page 134.2005: Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude While I worked out a Tetris-like arrangement to get all of the leftovers into the oven, Phil's curiosity got the better of him.There is one nice moment in the music, but it's not the moment identified by the owner of the system, and one idiot goes so far as to gush, "This is better than Tetris!" 2001, Matt O'Keefe, You Think You Hear, page 25.A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid.Etymology įrom Russian Те́трис ( Tétris ), coined by the creator of the game, Alexey Pajitnov, from the Russian numerical prefix тетра- ( tetra-, “ tetra- ” ) (as all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and те́ннис ( ténnis, “ tennis ” ), his favourite sport.
