
The game is named after Pajitnov’s favourite sport, tennis, and ‘tetra-’, the Greek prefix meaning ‘four’. Tetris was created in 1984 by the software engineer Alexey Pajitnov. However, the longer the player manages to stay in the game, the more the game continues to speed up. This is unavoidable, and the player’s aim is just to prevent this from happening for as long as possible. In Tetris, the field will eventually fill up with blocks. If the blocks are stacked too high, the player will not have enough time to rotate them and move them into place. The player must keep the playing field from filling up with blocks. Complete rows will vanish from the playing field, creating more space for new shapes.

The player must stack up the shapes as neaty as possible, without forming gaps between the blocks. Once a shape hits the surface below, it can no longer me moved. The player can move these shapes as long as they are still falling. These shapes are called Tetronimoes, and each Tetronimo is made up of four squares.

Geometric shapes will fall down from the top of the screen. The objective is to arrange the falling tiles into complete rows. Tetris is a tile-matching game, and it is one of the best-selling video games of all times.

Below, we’ve listed a bit more information about our Tetris games and the history of Tetris. This means that each game can be opened in an internet browser window and played directly - no downloads required. All of the games shown on this page are browser games.
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