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You are presented with a board by which falling shapes appear. The object of the game is to keep the blocks from piling up to the top of the playing field. To do this, you must move and rotate the blocks as they fall, attempting to fit them together. If you can completely fill one horizontal line with colored squares, that line disappears and any filled squares above move down. If you are unable to fill lines completely, the blocks will stack up and eventually reach the top of the playing field. The game ends when a new block that is placed at the top of the playing field is unable to drop at all due to the filled blocks.  As the blocks fall, you can rotate them using the Up cursor key to make them fit better together. You can also use the LEFT and RIGHT cursor keys (on your keyboard) to move the block left or right. The aim is to get the highest score. Every 10 lines that you get, the level will increase - this means that the falling speed will increase alittle. To help the skilled player plan better moves, the next block to fall is in the preview to the right of the board. Which block appears next, is determined by a random number generator and displayed in the preview. Points are assigned when lines are completed, with bonus points for completing several lines simultaneously (shown in the chart below). You get one point for each falling block.
Keyboard Controls
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