# Giant Tetris. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 20, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113 "2009-03-20T03:14:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/1 "2009-03-20T03:14:15Z")
Sorry if this is a repost. This has got to be the… most pointless/biggest/worst/best version of Tetris ever. [http://sovietrussia.org/f/src/tetoris.swf](http://sovietrussia.org/f/src/tetoris.swf) You can thank me (or beat me to a pulp) later. And I take no responsibility for what might happen to your job as a result of giving you this link. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/2 "2009-03-20T04:18:04Z")
32 minutes … for the first line ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/3 "2009-03-20T05:36:03Z")
Too slow… I prefer [Human Tetris](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LtUX_6IXY). ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/4 "2009-03-20T06:56:46Z")
Losing is harder than scoring points. I somehow managed to waste twelve minutes trying it and the results weren’t very satisfying. [pic](http://img13.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tetrisloss.tif) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/5 "2009-03-20T13:31:26Z")
If you pause it there’s a five minute counter. I kind of want to score a tetris on it but that’ll take at least an hour… ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/6 "2009-03-21T14:48:16Z")
Well at least you got a pretty flower out of it. Is there any way to make the pieces drop? That would actually make this kinda fun. You could make designs and stuff with it. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/7 "2009-03-21T15:09:27Z")
Space bar. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/8 "2009-03-21T16:08:16Z")
The Enter key was working for me. ETA:But they drop at a more manageable speed with the space bar. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/9 "2009-03-21T19:06:34Z")
It took me 14:20 to get a Tetris. I felt like that was enough. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/10 "2009-03-21T19:34:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Losing is harder than scoring points. I somehow managed to waste twelve minutes trying it and the results weren’t very satisfying. pic Wow, yours was a lot less branchy than mine. Once I got my main trunk up almost to the top, I couldn’t get the pieces sideways fast enough to make it taller, so I had to start side branches further down the trunk. Fortunately I had anticipated that, and left plenty of protrusions to build off of. ---
**Author:** ![straggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@straggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straggler)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/11 "2009-03-23T19:24:26Z")
22 minutes to get a line. That was enough. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/12 "2009-03-23T20:32:03Z")
Are we confident that “[sovietrussia.org](http://sovietrussia.org)” is a website whose applications should be run by nice people? ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/13 "2009-03-23T22:22:48Z")
I decided to let the pieces fall at random, and see what happens. [![](https://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) ](https://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) Except for one piece…there’s one piece that’s flipped around. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/14 "2009-03-24T00:43:07Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Are we confident that “[sovietrussia.org](http://sovietrussia.org)” is a website whose applications should be run by nice people? In [sovietrussia.org](http://sovietrussia.org), applications run you. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/15 "2009-03-24T02:22:39Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > In [sovietrussia.org](http://sovietrussia.org), applications run you. 😃 Seriously, though, no one’s computer has erupted with spyware and mail-order bride ads? ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/16 "2009-03-24T02:33:45Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > 😃 > > Seriously, though, no one’s computer has erupted with spyware and mail-order bride ads? Well, no more mail-order brides than I usually get… I haven’t had any problems personally. I left the game open to see how long it would take to lose and got about 10hrs, 30ish min (The pieces obscured the minutes, so that’s my best read.) No pics, but I also got a pretty flowery design too. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/17 "2009-03-24T06:30:07Z")
Did anyone else notice that, once in a great while, it’d give you a line that was 8 long, instead of 4? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-tetris/490113/18 "2009-03-25T02:38:51Z")
Yep, once in a great while and it was a dark gray color.