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The Miracle Of Tetris Effect
A new way of thinking emerges from the world of video-gaming
They say I am a master of applied game theory. I don’t know if that is true or not, but it is unlikely that a general life problem can be presented to me that I can’t imagine some solution. I never realized how I was able to do this. Them my mentor told me, “I think you have Tetris Syndrome.”
The Tetris Effect (also known as Tetris Syndrome). is an unusual mental state named after Tetris, a popular video game of the 1990s, which I actually never played. Excluding Asteroids and about 20-minutes of Super Mario, and Donkey Kong, I’ve never played a video-game.
Still, apparently, I had gotten Tetris Syndrome.
In this game, Tetris, tetromino-shaped pieces appear on a screen as 4 square blocks. The game process involves a random sequence of Tetriminos falling down the playing field depicted on the screen. This falling down takes place on a rectangular vertical shaft, called the “well” or “matrix.”
The objective of the game is to manipulate these Tetriminos to form horizontal lines of ten units without gaps. When such a range is created, it disappears, and any block above the deleted line will fall. When a certain number of lines are cleared, the game enters a new level.
