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How many Tetris blocks would it take to build your house?

If you’ve ever been sitting around your house or apartment or hovel or whatever and started wondering exactly how many Tetris pieces it would take to build such a structure, there’s now a calculator to figure it out.

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This playable LED Tetris pumpkin wins Halloween. Forever.

Pumpktris is a fully playable version of Tetris built into a pumpkin, with 128 LEDs for the display and the stem serving as a game controller.

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posted 30 October, 2012
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The secrets of an 18 year old Tetris grand master

Eighteen year old Kevin Birrell, a freshman at the University of Washington is one of one five recognized Tetris grand masters, and one of only two outside Japan.

MIT students turn a building into a giant game of Tetris

On April 20th, hackers at MIT converted the Green Building on campus into a giant playable game of Tetris.

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Sexy geekwear of the day: Tetris Leggings

From Black Milk (of course) for $80. Still waiting for that damn straight piece.

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posted 24 February, 2012
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Binary Tetris is the only Tetris whose source code can fit into a single tweet

There’s been a zillion versions of Tetris since the game first debuted in the 1980s. But out of those zillion versions, Binary Tetris is the only one that’s so minimal that its source code is short enough to fit in a single tweet.

posted 16 February, 2012
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Here’s a guy playing Tetris fast enough to make your eyes bleed

This is the world record run in the 40 line category, done by a guy going by the name of LapSiLap in the Hard Drop community. What is Hard Drop? Oh, just the mode hardcore, badass Tetris players on the planet.

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posted 14 December, 2011
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Minecraft crafting of the day: Giant stop-motion Game Boy playing Tetris

Just to be clear, in Minecraft itself, this giant Game Boy doesn’t actually play Tetris. It’s somehow more impressive that this was done all through meticulous stop-motion, moving brick by brick one after the other.

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posted 28 September, 2011
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Watch a guy build Luigi out of Tetris blocks in a real game of Tetris

Hoooly fucknuts… I will never be good at anything again in comparison to this.

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posted 12 September, 2011
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Confessions of a Tetris addict

Tetris has changed the life of James Clewett, the 1999 world champion. He is now on the brink of finishing a PhD in physics. Here he describes his obsession with the game and where it has led him.

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Morning time waster: Portal Tetris

Okay, so not much of a time waster, a few seconds at most, but it’s still sort of fun. Kind of. Hey, funny story. This weekend, I was over at Delsyd’s house, briefly watching him play Portal 2 and I thought to myself: “Someone should make a Portal/Tetris mashup”, and then yesterday, this shows up on the internet. MY MIND CONTROLS THE INTERNET.

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Monday afternoon time waster: “Tetris Heaven”

Last week, xkcd had a comic depicting what Tetris would be like in Heaven, and only a couple days later, someone turned that idea into a playable Flash game. And as it turns out, it’s a pretty fun Tetris game, with giant heavenly blocks coming at just the right time to clear out the board for you, fixing (nearly) all your Tetris fuck-ups.

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Guy teaches himself to play the Tetris theme in Ocarina of Time

Well that’s one way to spend your holidays. Just don’t watch this video too long and without the sound on or you’ll go mad. MAD I TELL YOU!

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posted 12 January, 2011
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Saturday morning cartoons: Tetris the Animated Series

DevastatorQuarterly imagines Tetris as an early 90s Saturday morning cartoon back when turning video games into stupid Saturday morning cartoons was all the rage, but way after onions on belts went out of fashion.