Tetris Research Page
Disclaimer: this game is no longer maintained.
Errors in scoring or running cannot be corrected.

The Java applet below runs a Tetris game that has been modified to play the same pieces over and over. This game must end (in a loss) before 70,000 pieces have been played. The current high score is 229. How many pieces can you place?

This site includes a brief explanation of why you are destined to lose this game, a list of high scores, and, of course, the applet below. A more detailed proof is presented in the paper "How to Lose at Tetris" in the Mathematical Gazette, July 1997.

To play this game, you need a Java compatible browser.
This applet is based on a Java Tetris game written by Nathan Williams of MIT. The procedure which records high scores was, for the most part, written by Herky Gottfried and Shikha Ghosh Gottfried. Thanks also to Daeron Meyer and Adam Rosien for their patience and help in getting it all running.

Feel free to send questions about the game and suggestions for improvement of this page to me at burgiel@math.uic.edu.

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