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...ne direction. All seven of the tetrominoes can be rotated, including the O piece (which has only one orientation). If there is no space for the piece in its new orientation, it does not rotate.

:Choose a piece at random from the comma-separated ''list'' and deal it. Duplicates are per :Starting with the first piece of ''list'', deal each piece in turn. When the end of the ''list'' is reached, start again from the begi

...pawns in row 20 column 6. It's also the axis of rotation (except for the O piece, which doesn't rotate).]] ...intendo Rotation System]], except that the horizontal orientation of the I piece is one block higher.

...and vibrate an S or Z-piece by pianoing the rotate buttons, and moving the piece down the stack. A fish can be seen performed with the Z-piece in the ''[[TGM]]'' attract mode during the S3 class player demonstration.

The playfield is 18 rows high, but locking a piece above row 15 (partial lock out) will result in the game ending. The top out The following diagrams for the JLT piece orientations have their left-most orientation as their initial orientation,

...step finesse''' is a group of piece placement optimizations in which every piece can be placed in 2 steps or less. In general it can be applied to most [[Te *[[0G 60Hz SRS I Movement Finesse]]

[[Image:Zangi_move.jpg|thumb|Zangief piledriving an I-piece]] ...drop the piece, left or right to move the piece over, and down to lock the piece in place. Doing these inputs in a single circular motion of the arcade stic

A '''pentomino''' is a [[piece|polyomino]] of five squares. The ancient [[pentomino puzzle]] uses free pen I

Starting a game with a S or Z piece (known as '''S and Z starts''') is a delicate way of starting, since it lea This method consist in placing a tetromino under the first piece.

...ece sequence is generated upon game start, with the seed changing for each piece. Once the sequence is generated, the seed remains the same during a game. # The 1000 piece sequence restarts every 1000 pieces.

''Columns'' uses only the I [[piece|trimino]], where each block is colored with one of a selection of four to s The player can move the piece sideways into a [[playfield]] whose width may be 6 or 7 blocks and whose he

The seven one-sided tetrominoes are ''I'', ''O'', ''T'', ''S'', ''Z'', ''J'', and ''L''. ...with [[SRS]] and [[TGM Rotation]] have dominated new games, and "the blue piece" is always J.

*Ctrl+A (Up): Move current piece up one row. *Ctrl+K (Polymorph): Convert current piece to an I.

...extended bounding box followed by a 5x5 array describing the shape of the piece; each nonzero makes a block in that space. *Piece01: I rotated left, color 1, bounding box size 4

...ino. It can produce a maximum of 12 tetrominoes between one I and the next I, and a run of S and Z tetrominoes is limited to a maximum of 4. ...[Tetris The Grand Master Ace]], the first piece of the first bag is always I, J, L, or T, just as in the traditional [[TGM randomizer]].

Nothing can be done in the case of the O piece: There is no problem getting the O piece to here

...ng|thumb|All rotation states of all seven tetrominoes. From top to bottom: I, J, L, S, T, Z. Top right: O.]] Tetrominoes start out centered, rounding to the left. I goes in columns 4–7 counting from the left, O in columns 5–6, a

...s that make up a piece are colored the same; in others, especially falling piece games other than ''Tetris'' and its [[List of fan games|fan games]], they a A '''polyomino''' is a piece made of one or more square blocks, where all blocks are connected through f

...to rotate a piece 2 or 3 times in quick succession. This can help to get a piece to the desired orientation before it lands, or after it lands and before th When the gravity is fast you want to rotate only after the piece has landed, whenever this is possible. Here the player has an active L and

*'''Piece preview.''' Keep an eye on the [[piece preview|next piece]](s). They will help prepare for how the pieces at hand shall be placed. ...ossible. A rough surface or a "castle" like structure might hinder optimum piece placements. Don't stack perfectly even either, as there are ''Z''s and ''S'