Cheating at Tetris

(chalkdustmagazine.com)

14 points | by t-3 3 days ago

2 comments

  • xandrius 1 minute ago
    Picking 100,000 blocks for this challenge shows how little the author knows about tetris. A "kill screen" in the traditional tetris averages around 2000-4000 blocks (rough estimate). And that's already pretty hard to reach.

    Someone good at tetris would never take such a challenge because they know how much that is. While a mathematician who just want to make a catchy post seemingly would.

    I believe that even if you sent the "worst" configuration of blocks, a really good player would be able to stick around for 500-1000 blocks every time (unless glaring mistakes), especially if they expect an attacker choosing the blocks. If the attacker chooses random, that would actually be an advantage since the real game chooses pieces almost at random (AFAIK it's not pure random).

    So, this post is like challenging someone who's good at tennis at making 100,000 of shots every single time: it's just orders of magnitude so off, that the player would know you're a total noob simply for asking.

  • crtasm 1 hour ago