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Pentomino puzzles have been featured in several games and books; examples include the popular video game, Tetris, and the novel, "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett. Pentomino puzzles are fun and addictive, all the while teaching you spatial thinking. While there are many commercial puzzles available, it is easy and fun to make your... more »
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Tetris () is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was created on June 6, 1984,http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5510V020090602 while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. Retrieved August 24, 2007. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix "tetra- (all of the games pieces, known as Tetrominoes, contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnovs favorite sport."g4_tetra_tennis">Pajitnov interview, G4 "Icons", ep. , originally aired on April 22, 2004."vadim">Gerasimov, Vadim. . Retrieved June 10, 2007.
The game (or one of its many variants) is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs, Network Music Players and even as an Easter egg on non-media products like oscilloscopes. It has even been played on the sides of various buildings, with the record holder for the worlds largest fully functional game of Tetris being an effort by Dutch students in 1995 that lit up all 15 floors of the Electrical Engineering department at Delft University of Technology.
While versions of Tetris were sold for a range of 1980s home computer platforms, it was the hugely successful handheld version for the Game Boy launched in 1989 that established the reputation of the game as one of the most popular ever. Electronic Gaming Monthlys 100th issue had Tetris in first place as "Greatest Game of All Time". In 2007, Tetris came in second place in IGNs "100 Greatest Video Games of All Time". It has sold more than 70 million copies.guardian020609>The Guardian, 2 June 2009,
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A random sequence of tetrominoes (sometimes called "tetrads" in older versio read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
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