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It is generally colored fainter than the falling piece and the blocks in the playfield. As the player moves the falling piece, the ghost piece moves below it;

...it disappears. A top egg half with a bottom egg half below it removes all blocks between the egg half, falls together, hatches, and disappears. A block land ...ike in ''Hatris'', there is no bonus for doing two clears with one pair of blocks.

'''''Columns''''' is a non-tetromino falling block game franchise, developed by [[Sega]] as a response to the popularity ...]] whose width may be 6 or 7 blocks and whose height is variable (12 to 18 blocks depending on version).

...ng either the stack, or the speed of the falling [[piece]]. Clearing these blocks add to the M1ND BEND3R multiplier, and failing to clear one within a certai === Item blocks ===

...r|Randomly]] selected [[tetromino]]es, or shapes consisting of four square blocks, fall from the top of the playfield one at a time. The player can [[rotate]] the falling tetromino ninety degrees at a time within the plane of the playfield by pre

...ting aspect of dream tetris is people rarely seem to lose, because all the blocks fall just the way they want them to. ...play in an actual 20-by-10 field. mf plays with a field of either 8 or 10 blocks wide, but infinitely high, so he can never top out. Rosti_LFC reports that

'''''Lumines''''' (pronounced like "luminous") is a falling blocks puzzle game released in 2004 (Japan) and 2005 (Latin locales) for PSP. Playfield is 16 blocks wide by 10 blocks tall.

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...or featuring item blocks that appear inside the players' stacks instead of falling tetrominoes, a mechanic that would inspire a number of later games such as

{{Infobox |title = Falling lightblocks '''''Falling Lightblocks''''' is a multi-platform game that devloped by MrStahlfelge. It

...ownward motion of [[tetromino]]s in Tetris games, and other games that use falling pieces. There are three different types of drops in Tetris, gravity drop, s ...ding on the difficulty level, or progress in the game. Some games move the falling tetromino down the display by a distance of one block every so often; other

...ll blocks 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]], A '''polyomino''' is a piece made of one or more square blocks, where all blocks are connected through full coincident edges (as if squares on graph paper).

...when hitting the floor, the side walls, the current stack, or the current falling tetromino; meteors can also be crushed by hard-dropping a piece directly ab *''Garbage (Green)'' – Adds random garbage blocks after hitting the stack. Falls after performing single- to triple-line clea

In Bombliss, falling pieces contain bombs. Each piece may contain no bombs, one bomb, or be enti ...gap. Unlike in ''[[Lumines]]'', large bombs cannot be made of overlapping blocks.

...are visible on screen at once, and the field will scroll down to follow a falling piece or bomb if needed. ...unless they keep clearing lines in the lower field and collecting powerup blocks.

...PDP-11 would instead display nothing. A later revision was made where the blocks are represented by a pair of square brackets instead. ...etromino descends a row due to gravity. As can be seen, an ''I'' tetromino falling freely from the top of the playfield to the bottom will descend 19 rows and

...s it to disappear. When a player completes more than one line at once, all blocks in the playfield move a number of lines toward the other player's side. (Un In push mode, it is possible for a game to be drawn by clearing all blocks from the playfield, although the program is incapable of recognizing a draw

...order to survive. Every 10 lines advances the game's level, increasing the falling speed of pieces. ...st 8.1 blocks, or slightly under 80% full (as lines in this mode are 10.25 blocks wide). When lines are cleared, only the portions of the pieces that are ins

...ne clear. Clearing a line will clear all non-silver blocks in the line and blocks above will fall based on [[Line clear#Sticky|sticky]] gravity. A single colour line clear is referred to as a "Magicaliss". It removes all blocks of the same colour as the line clear. It is possible to achieve a Magicalis

Blocks that get pushed up the vanishing zone are deleted. The only way to top out ...e lines are sent to the opponent. Crystal blocks are converted into normal blocks and are not collected.

The following is a legend detailing the functions of the various blocks used in the diagrams throughout the wiki articles. :Alternate term for falling piece.

...etromino Per Time|TPM]], although for a short duration. The game displays "blocks per minute" of even higher, but these measurements aren't in real time. Qua

...lso called '''''Puyo Pop''''' in past English releases) is a non-tetromino falling block puzzle game franchise. The game was a hit in Japan, with one of the first falling blocks game to heavily emphasize characters and storylines, and putting versus pla

A '''tetromino''' is a polyomino made of four square blocks. ...tfighter.com/tetristerminology/ Tetris Terminology] - What do you call the falling pieces in Tetris?...

*[http://blocks.gamenull.com Blocks] A Java version of the game. *[[Blocks from Hell]] - A DOS game

...om [[Tetris (Sega)]] placed 5th, just above the I block in 6th. The Tetris blocks won the Favourite Group award. ([http://gaming.moe/?p=2203 ref]) *[http://www.flickr.com/photos/nowends/sets/72157611187567238/ Tetris falling on an alley (photography)]

...y [[Arika]], known for its ''[[TGM series|TGM]]'' series of games. It is a falling block game with new color merging gameplay. While having different rules th Lines must be composed entirely of blocks, not gems. Unlike ''Tetris'', each piece segment that was part of the line

*[[Double Blocks]], 1990 *[[Falling Down]], 2012

...omino was a rotate, as opposed to sideways movement, downward movement, or falling due to gravity. (Canceling lock delay in games that allow it, such as Tetri ...the T-spin will not be recognized. (Kicks that place the flat side against blocks in the playfield still work.)

...tests, it will kick and rotate, regardless of whether or not the adjacent blocks are occupied. *[[Falling Down]]

...Aka Tetris The Absolute The Grandmaster 2 PLUS", delivered on June 1st. A falling object puzzle game released in 2000 ...d. Any row above it, however, is not part of the buffer zone, meaning that blocks that lock in such rows get deleted and will not reappear once the stack is