HOW TO PLAY
🎮 The Basics
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Blocks (tetrominoes) fall from the top. Move and rotate them to fill complete horizontal lines.
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A complete line is cleared and you score points. Incomplete lines stack up — fill the board and it's game over.
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Hard drop instantly slams the piece to the bottom. The ghost piece (faint outline) shows where it will land.
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Hold Piece — press the hold key to save your current piece for later. The held piece is shown in the sidebar. A 🔒 icon appears when hold is spent for that piece — it resets automatically when the next piece spawns. Can be toggled OFF in Settings.
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Lock delay — when a piece touches the ground you have a brief window to slide or rotate before it locks. Up to 15 moves extend the timer, so skilled players can reposition right at the bottom.
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Fair piece order — pieces are dealt in shuffled sets of all 7 (a "7-bag" system). You will never go more than 12 pieces without seeing any given tetromino.
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Every 10 lines cleared you level up. Higher levels drop faster. Difficulty also slowly increases over time.
⭐ Scoring
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Single line: 100 × level
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Double: 300 × level
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Triple: 700 × level
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Tetris (4 lines): 1500 × level
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Back-to-back bonus: Scoring a Tetris or T-Spin directly after another Tetris or T-Spin (without any normal clear in between) awards 1.5× points. A B2B! tag flashes on the board to confirm it. Single/double/triple clears break the chain.
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Streak bonus: Clearing lines on consecutive pieces multiplies points. A streak counter is shown in the sidebar — watch it escalate from yellow to orange to white as your combo climbs.
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Placement bonus: Every block placed scores 5 × level points — even without clearing lines.
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Hard drop bonus: +2 points per row the piece travels on a hard drop.
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2× Multiplier power-up: All points are doubled for 8 seconds. Shown as ×2 next to your level in the sidebar.
📊 End-of-Game Stats
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When the game ends a full stats screen appears showing your complete performance — score, time, level, lines cleared, all line clear types, T-spins, hard drops, holds, power-ups, and every piece type you placed.
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In 2P mode both players' stats appear side by side for easy comparison. Press PLAY AGAIN to rematch or MENU to return to the main screen.
⚔ 2-Player Combat
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Two players compete simultaneously. The player with the highest score when both top out wins (Score mode), or the last player standing wins (Last Stand mode).
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The leading player's score pulses and grows in the sidebar so you always know who's ahead.
🗑 Garbage Lines
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Clearing 2 or more lines at once sends garbage to your opponent. 2 lines → 1 garbage row, 3 → 2 rows, 4 → 3 rows.
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Garbage rows appear as dark grey blocks rising from the bottom, each with one random gap. The same gap column is used across all rows in a burst — use that column to clear them.
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Garbage is capped at 4 rows per burst — it can never instantly end the game. You'll always have a chance to react.
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A red warning bar pulses next to your board showing how many garbage lines are queued against you. The fuller the bar, the more is coming.
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Garbage can be toggled OFF in Settings if you prefer a pure score battle.
🛡 Garbage Cancelling
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If you have incoming garbage queued, clearing lines will cancel it instead of attacking your opponent. Clear 2 lines with 3 queued → cancel 1 line of garbage, send 0 to opponent.
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Cancelling is automatic — your cleared lines offset your own pending garbage first. Any excess attack flows through to the opponent as normal.
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A 🛡 CANCELLED N! flash in green confirms how many lines were cancelled. Watch your warning bar and time your clears to neutralise incoming attacks.
✨ Power-ups
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Clearing 3 or more lines at once triggers a random power-up for the clearing player.
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Clear Bottom Row — instantly removes your lowest filled row, giving you breathing room.
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Slow Opponent — your opponent's drop speed is halved for 5 seconds. Their board gets a yellow tint.
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2× Score Multiplier — all your points are doubled for 8 seconds.
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Bonus Points — instant score dump of 500 × level.
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Glitch — hides your opponent's ghost piece for 10 seconds. They can no longer see where their piece will land. Their board gets a purple tint.
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Freeze — blocks your opponent's rotation for 3 seconds. They cannot rotate pieces at all. Their board gets a blue shimmer.
Active power-ups show as icons with a drain bar in the sidebar. Power-ups can be toggled OFF in Settings.
🔄 T-Spins
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A T-Spin is when a T-piece is rotated into a tight space that it couldn't slide into directly. T-Spins score bonus points and in 2P mode can also send extra garbage.
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The sidebar shows a T-SPIN counter. Achieving T-Spins consistently is an advanced technique that rewards positional planning.
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T-Spins count toward the back-to-back chain — consecutive T-Spins and Tetrises each score 1.5× their normal value.
⌨ Controls
SETTINGS
🔊 Sound FX
Enable SFX
Volume
🎵 Music
Enable Music
Volume
Track No music loaded
Place .mp3 in ./sound/music/ — or drag & drop:
Drop .mp3 files here (or click to browse)
🎨 Theme
🎮 Gameplay
P1 Difficulty
P2 Difficulty
Ghost piece
Hold Piece
Garbage Lines (2P)
Power-ups (2P)
Win Mode (2P)
Fullscreen
Display Mode
DAS (delay before repeat)
170ms
ARR (repeat interval)
50ms
⌨ Player 1 Keys
⌨ Player 2 Keys
🎮 Player 1 Gamepad
Connect gamepad, then click an action to rebind — press any button on the controller
🎮 Player 2 Gamepad
Connect gamepad, then click an action to rebind — press any button on the controller
COMBATris
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GAME OVER
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VS
⏸ PAUSED
Press P to resume
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