Tetris vs Puzzle - What's the difference?
tetris | puzzle |
A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid.
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(figuratively) An endeavor involving rearranging things of different shape into a physical space.
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(video games, by extension) The act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris .
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Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
A game for one person that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
A crossword puzzle.
A jigsaw puzzle.
A riddle.
(archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
(label) To perplex (someone).
* (Henry More) (1614-1687)
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
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English
(wikipedia Tetris)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- There is one nice moment in the music, but it's not the moment identified by the owner of the system, and one idiot goes so far as to gush, "This is better than Tetris !"
- While I worked out a Tetris -like arrangement to get all of the leftovers into the oven, Phil's curiosity got the better of him.
- When people spoke to me, the sounds of their words were Tetris shapes, falling. All I had to do was put each one in its bright, satisfying place.
- The tetris method does have some shortcomings, however. In placements produced by Feng Shui , the cells are closely packed.
- From the kitchen the guy said, "I write science fiction. Or I'm trying to write. I've been staring at that screen for three days. You just interrupted a one-hour Tetris marathon. I need to talk to a real human being."
- there were some other guys there who were into cosplay—that's costume play—and their thing was, they were dressed as Tetris blocks.
- Then I looked at the furniture. It was all a bit unimaginative, so I rearranged everything at a jaunty angle. When I returned to the cellar I was still playing Tetris with the cooker in my head.
Derived terms
* Tetris algorithm * Tetris effectNoun
(es)- For some it's staying low on the play field, steadily advancing through the levels, for others its (SIC) trying to clear the board entirely or scoring an unprecedented number of tetrises .
- See figure 3 for an example of a logical decision tree that indicates whether there is a possibility to score a tetris .
- Maximizing the number of tetrises (the number of times that four rows are cleared in a Tetris game) is NP-complete.
- Score two Tetrises in two drops playing Marathon.
Anagrams
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* tetromino * tetrimono ----puzzle
English
(wikipedia puzzle)Noun
(en noun)- Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.
- to be in a puzzle
Synonyms
* (anything difficult to understand or make sense of ): anybody's guess, anyone's guess, conundrum, enigma, mystery * (game for one person ): brain-teaser, poser * (crossword puzzle ): crossword, crossword puzzle * (''jigsaw puzzle): jigsaw, jigsaw puzzle * (riddle ): guessing game, riddleDerived terms
* Chinese puzzle * crossword puzzle * jigsaw puzzle * monkey puzzle * puzzle out * puzzle over * puzzled * puzzlement * puzzler * puzzlingVerb
(puzzl)- A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others, if they be not thoroughpaced speculators in those great theories.
- He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.
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- The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, / Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.
- They disentangle from the puzzled skein.