The men de- Tetrised their saddles and rigging bags and scrambled into the concourse, to the earthen circle of the arena…
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Sterling cracked the side door before the van stopped. And you can even prefix Tetris if you need a verb for removing something from said configuration: The use of Tetris as a verb is still too rare for dictionary entry, but it has nonetheless become an option as a word for clever spatial arrangement. Lisa-Jo Baker, Surprised by Motherhood, 2014 Cars kept trying to Tetris themselves into a driveway so steep it's a stretch for three- impossible for more. Lance Parkin, Doctor Who: The Eyeless, 2010 In front of the Doctor now was a gleaming cliff made up of different apartment blocks, terraces and observation needles, all built to jostle for a view of the sea, tetrised together, blocking out the rest of the city, except for the odd tower and spire that peeked over.
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I'd gone grocery shopping the day before, and the crowded kitchen shelves were Tetrised with Betty's favorites: mac and cheese, Cheerios, cinnamon grahams.Īmy Shearn, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, 2013 Which made Tetris-ing each member behind Bob's desk a bit of a challenge, but Mother Falcon knows its way around cramped spaces… Unlike The Polyphonic Spree, though, everyone in Mother Falcon plays an instrument during this performance: There's no chorus of backup singers among the 17 men and women who play guitars and horns and keyboards and woodwinds and strings here. The crew managed to Tetris it inside, and though it was a tight squeeze, that didn't bother Hogan: "All three of us have so many miles in band vans between us, it's pretty normal to be resting my arm on an organ as we're traveling."Īnnie Zaleski, The Chicago Reader, 14 Jan. The trip almost got off on the wrong foot, though: despite preliminary measurements, says Hogan, the organ "came very close to not fitting" in the rental van. The game known as Tetris has pervaded the culture to such an extent that it has inspired occasional, creative use of Tetris as a verb, one meaning something along the lines of "to arrange the parts of (something) to fit efficiently within a limited space": The name Tetris (coined by Pajitnov) derives in part from the Greek prefix tetra-, meaning "four," a reference to the fact that each block consists of an arrangement of four adjoining cubes (known among gamers as tetrominos).
Points are scored for every "line" that is completed, with the blocks falling at a higher rate of speed as the game progresses. Invented in 1984 by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris requires players to arrange blocks of various shapes that "fall" from the top of the screen in a way so that they fit together efficiently at the bottom of the screen. Is anything as satisfying as finishing a row?