TETRIS – An interesting puzzle game

Origin of Tetris

Tetris was created in Russia in 1985 and was never having any copyrights as the then communist Russia was not issuing intellectual property rights to private entities. Tetris was first created by Alexey Pajitnov (Pazhitnov) supported by Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov.

Tetris was initially created based on another game called Genetic engineering. Alexey Pajitnov and Dmitry Pavlovsky were computer engineers and worked simultaneously at the Computer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Numerous psychology based games were previously published by Alexey Pajitnov. Computer games were written for mainframes by Dmitry Pavlovsky. Vadim Gerasimov, high school student printed a directory encryption program for MSDOS. Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers later started the Tetris Company.

How to play Tetris

Tetris originally comes from the Greek word tetra or “four”. The aim of Tetris is to control these tetrominoes with the intention of creating a horizontal line of blocks without gaps. It is a pc puzzle game in which different shapes namely “tetrominoes” built of four squares fall down a well. You can play Tetris by learning from the tutorial available.

You need to turn the tetrominoes around and shift them left or right in order to assemble them on top of each other. When you finish the solid line of squares from end to end, the lines fade away and the other tetrominoes shifts down by one square.

You can win points after the lines fade away. The game concludes once the well is filled. You need to work tough to keep the well empty as long as possible but the parts fall faster making the game harder. The seven one-sided tetrominoes in Tetris are referred to as I, J, L, O, S, T, and Z.

All are capable of single and double clears. I, J, and L are capable to clear triples. Only the “I” tetromino has the capability to clear four lines concurrently, and this clear is mentioned as a "Tetris." This can happen only if the rotation occurs according to the rules and regulations of the Tetris.

Tetris varies from series to series. You can download Tetris from various websites available. Some mobile phone also has installed Tetris for you to play at anytime anywhere. These types of puzzle games help various players to have fun and improve their skills. Normally puzzle games are said to improve the IQ skills. So you can have fun by just clicking and playing Tetris.