Playing Tetris on your Desktop

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. The goal of Tetris

3. Rules of Tetris

Introduction

Tetris is popular tile-matching puzzle that you find on most of the video game consoles, smartphones

and other mobiles, computer operating systems, portable media players, PDAs, and other hand-held

devices. The game uses the concept of Tetromino, a geometric shape made up of four squares that are

connected orthogonally (at right angles). See below different Tetromino shapes used in the game.

The purpose of the manual is to explain how the game is played and what all actions you can take during

the course of the game.

This is how you get started with Tetris on your Desktop.

Step 1

Type the URL, http://www.baptistebrunet.com/games/tetris_js/.

Note – Capture the QR code on the mobile and click the above URL to play the game on your

smartphone.

Step 2

Press the Enter Key on your keyboard and the following homepage appears on your screen

Step 3

Click the New game button to start the game.

Step 4

The games starts and the Tetrominos start to descend to the bottom of the screen.

Note – You have to arrange the falling Tetrominos in a proper sequence and fill up the play area on your

screen with complete horizontal lines.

Step 5

Move the falling Tetromino, sideways on your screen in following way:

Step 5.1. Press the Right Arrow Key on your keyboard to move the Tetromino on the right side of the

play area.

Step 5.2. Press the Left Arrow Key on your keyboard to move the Tetrimino on the left side of the play

area

Step 5.3. Press and Hold the Downward Arrow Key to quickly bring down the Tetromino at the bottom.

Note – You can release the Key at last moment to stop the sharp descent. It is called "Soft Drop".

Step 5.4. Tapping the Upward Arrow Key changes the shape of the Tetromino.

Note – Use this key to change the shape of Tetromino as required, to fit it inside the line configuration.

Step 6

Click on the Pause button, if you want to take a break from the game.

Step 6.1. Click the Resume button to re-start the same game.

1. The game ends when the stack of Tetrominos reaches the top of the play area and no new

Tetrominos are able to enter the area.

2. As certain numbers of lines are successfully created the game enters a new level.

Step 7

To start a new game, click the Play again button

See above in the screenshot that displays the earned points point at the end of the game. Here is the

score is 27 and no horizontal lines have been created. Hence, the Line score is 0.

Goal of Tetris

The goal of the user is to achieve a stack of horizontal Tetromino lines, with no intermittent gaps in the

line itself or between any two consecutive lines. Once, the lines neatly stack up from the bottom to the

top of playing area, the game moves on to the next level. As the game level moves up, the speed of

falling Tetrominos increases and this gives the user the lesser time to successfully complete the grid of

lines on the screen.

In the nutshell, Tetris increases the brain activity. As a Tetris player, you will see that over the time your

cerebral output increases.

Rules

The Important rules of the game are:

• Once all the lines in a game are done, the game is over.

• You have to start a new game (repeat the same game) again if you have not been able to

complete all the lines in the previous game.

• The difficult "Line Clears" are awarded more points

• To successfully complete a game you need to create series of horizontal lines one over the

other, with no gaps in between

• The game ends when the stack of Tetrominos reaches the top of the play area and no new

Tetrominos are able to enter the area.

• As certain numbers of lines are successfully created the game enters a new level.