Why tetris is bad

Now, on to the worst Arguably, the most fun thing about Tetris is the satisfaction you get from fitting different shaped bricks into one another and watching as the lines in your wall vanish.

Wordtris does an excellent job of completely removing this from the game, replacing it instead with the task of arranging falling letters into words.

It's a lot of fun, in the same way that elementary school spelling was more fun than Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Hard pass. A theme among the worst Tetris games is that they inexplicably seek to replace the thing that works the best about the original game, the bricks, with things that literally don't work at all. Enter: Faces The goal is to line up different parts of peoples' faces as they drop to the bottom of the screen. Or, you could always just Swing and a miss.

It's not that the iOS port of Tetris is bad, per se. It's more just that Tetris doesn't work without a controller. The touch screen controls are a valiant attempt at a mobile alternative, but Tetris is a game that relies on the satisfaction of precisely setting up your piece, tapping a button until it's exactly how you want it, and slamming the down button.

The iOS game loses all of this. Not that it's necessarily its fault, but for better or worse, the game just doesn't work. Plus, in-app purchases?

No thanks. You know what Tetris has always been missing? A story mode. Sure, these bricks are falling from the top of the screen, seems like they want to be put into a line, but the question remains: why? Where are these bricks from? The researchers looked at two other scenarios where people were waiting for uncertain news. One included students waiting for exam results, and the other included people waiting to hear back about job applications.

Participants completed surveys measuring worry, emotions and how often they were in flow. Once again, the researchers found that those who experienced more flow said they felt less worried and better emotionally. Tetris isn't the only activity that can get you into flow, though. Other activities such as rock climbing, playing chess and swimming can work too. The page encountered an error and needs to be refreshed.

Exercise 1. He was too absorbed in the game to hear his mother. Tim gets really frustrated when he loses at chess. You should ask your boss for a raise. Worst-case scenario , she says "no". Without proper funding, the future of the project is uncertain. At the age of 30, he is still uncertain about his future. Social media is a huge distraction for me when I'm working. I'm going to the library so I can study without any distractions.

To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Tetris is an elegant game — some might even say perfect in its simplicity. So, what happens when you decide to intentionally mess with the formula to turn Tetris into something terrible? One game developer is answering this question with Terrible Tetris Tuesdays, a Twitter trend focused on making everyone a little bit irritated — or perhaps awestruck — with some new mechanic or complication. For instance, what if Tetris , but all of the pieces were tiny?

Or sticky? Or there was a persistent fog of war on the screen, and you could only really spot the area around your current block? What if you could only clear vertical lines?