How to Tetris

Tetrises: Donations, Floats, Recovery, and More

Tetrises can be donated, suspended, or used for fixes. There are several tricks one can use:

  1. A balanced parity helps make clean Tetrises more consistent.
  2. Tetrises can float using combinations such as LLO, LSZ, TTJ, etc.
  3. Tetrises are best used to sustain back-to-backs and firepower, if a T-spin or downstack combo is not available.
  4. Tetrises are very useful for cleaning up misdrops.
  5. Clean Tetrises can be easily topped with an overhang to make a prophecy T-spin setup.
  6. Tetrises can be constructed non-linearly with soft drops.
  7. Freestyle Tetris donations open up more firepower options.

I present my Twitch Tetris clips, featuring my actual gameplay, to demonstrate the above. Below every video is a set of commentaries unique to that clip.

Enjoy! I hope you will learn from my demonstrations.

Please click on the Twitch links in the demonstrations below.

Floating Tetris Donation:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2518347366

  • Uses L, J, and Z to make a suspended Tetris donation to increase firepower.

5-wide Above Floating Tetris:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2518366834

  • Combines T-spins with a floating Tetris for firepower and back-to-backs.

Cleaning Up with a Tetris Donation:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2532418114

  • Uses a clean Tetris to fix a misdrop, sustaining back-to-backs and firepower.
  • Makes a prophecy T-spin overhang above the Tetris.

Prophecy O Tuck Tetris to T-spin Double:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2517378554

  • Uses a non-linear O tuck to make a prophecy T-spin double after the Tetris.

Prophecy O Tuck Tetris to Another T-spin:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2321305548

  • Same.

Another Prophecy Tetris to T-spin:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2302947395

  • Same.

Tetris Misdrop Repair:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2517440126

  • Secondary Tetris is completely clean after misdrop fix.

Another Tetris Misdrop Repair:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2517577567

  • Secondary Tetris is completely clean after misdrop fix.
  • Note how parity is managed properly to ensure that the Tetris is clean.

Tetris Donation:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2518380279

  • Note how L, S, and J merge to form a floating Tetris.

Very Clean Tetris Donation:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2303011284

  • Note how clean the Tetris is.
  • This can only be freestyled.

LLO Tetris Float:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2236152756

  • LLO is combined to make a perfectly clean Tetris float.

More clips may be added in the future. However, this list is enough to showcase the core points. Any further ones may be redundant.