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Comment by wbakst

8 days ago

is it possible to lose?

You lose when the middle columns (where new pieces appear) reach the top but with gaps in them. If there are no gaps they are cleared, the board flips and the game continues.

  • got it. with the holes collapsing during the rotation, i found it very difficult to leave gaps

Yeah i don't quite get this. It seems to more or less fill in gaps? Which for Tetris makes the game trivial? Even on hard i had cases where i intentionally made gaps, scored a line and then the pieces flipped, fell, closed gaps and chain reacted to an almost empty board.