TETRIS · CHALLENGE OF 2026-10-17

HOW THE DAY WENT

Saturday, October 17 brought TETRIS, at level 5, and 6 people played.

ELI won by a street with 24,738 points, 14,395 more than ADRIAN in second. FERXO17 rounds out the podium with 4,367.

Among the top 6, the average was 6,771 points.

THE SCREEN

It used map 2 of the 3 that TETRIS has. It was played at level 5, with the same seed for everyone: the same enemies and the same pieces in the same order.

THE MUSIC

Brindis («Libiamo ne' lieti calici») de La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi, 1853.

The drinking song from the first act of La Traviata: Alfredo and Violetta raise their glasses at a party in Paris. It is among the most sung duets in opera.

It is in the public domain, transcribed to chiptune with square and triangle waves, the way it would sound on an Atari 2600.

ABOUT TODAY'S GAME

The day's 7-bag comes from the seed: everyone gets exactly the same pieces in the same order, so the board compares decisions, not luck.

The day's map is garbage rows at the bottom, and the parameter is the starting level. Level goes up every ten lines and gravity drops from 22 ticks per cell to a minimum of 2.

· A tetris pays 1200 and four single lines pay 160. Digging a one-column well and waiting for the bar is by far the profitable play.

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