Shift and rotate falling blocks to fill out lines and earn points.

Instructions

NOTE: To play this game, your Web browser must be able to run Java applets.

Java applet created by Eric Peterson, 16, Washington, D.C.

Instructions

In this game, blocks move one at a time from the top to the bottom of the box. Each block, called a tetromino, is made up of four squares, and there are five different blocks. Two blocks have two different orientations.

As a block falls, you can use the left and right arrow keys to move the block sideways. The down key speeds up the block's downward motion. The space bar rotates the block.

Your goal is to let blocks fall into place so that their squares completely fill one or more rows. For each row filled, you score points, and the row disappears from the box. The game ends when the box fills to the top and no new block can begin to fall.

Click on "New Game" to start.

You can learn more about the mathematics of Tetris, on which this falling blocks game is based, at http://www.sciencenews.org/20021026/mathtrek.asp.

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