# Tetris for the Crypto Space

By [Turtle Land](https://paragraph.com/@turtle-land) · 2022-03-08

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History is made of great examples of simple, but powerful things. When, **during the 80s**, a University researcher created the first version of this game, an iconic example of “_simple but powerful_” was just created.

**Tetris**, this was the name chosen by its creator, was initially created as a side project. The idea behind was simple: players have a list of tetrominoes, figures made of 4 squared blocks, with different colors. One at a time, in a random order, the tetrominoes start “_dropping_” in the game board. The goal? Make points by **deleting rows**. To delete a row, the tetrominoes must form a full line, without spaces.

![First version of Tetris Game](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/280fb9898f6049cea83bc5e1a8ad484772ffd1e9a8f387eab6377193e0958eed.png)

First version of Tetris Game

It became so popular that **Nintendo** included a very first version of it in their GameBoy, while mathematicians demonstrated that an infinite game is not possible, even if the user never makes mistakes. In fact, a combination of tiles that never fits in a row is, sooner or later, possible.

Tetris on the Blockchain
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Everyone in our **team** has always been a huge **fan of Tetris**. On a monthly basis, we run internal challenges, or “_Tetris parties_” as we call them. Some of us have also coded it in different ways.

Our background is not just in the **game space**, but also in the games applied to **casinos**, where a (big or small) degree of randomness and luck plays a central role.

When we decided to create Tetris on the blockchain, we designed something with the following characteristics:

*   **Eternal** - thanks to smart contract configuration, the game should be played fully on chain, now or in 10 years time
    
*   **Trustless** - rules should be transparent and the same for everyone
    
*   **Strategy** - each player should build up his own strategy to win
    
*   **Reward** - the goal is to get a high reward
    
*   **Gas-friendly** - minimize the gas spent to play the game
    

… So, what have we designed?
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If you’re thinking about a game that is played on a third party platform, like Axie Infinity, with achievements paid on the blockchain, this is not what we’ve designed. With Tetris, there won’t be a single back-end API built by us, **everything will be 100% on blockchain**.

We’ll provide a cool, simple Tetris UI on top of it, to make it easier for you to play, but anyone will be able to build its own UI, implementing calls to our Solidity contract.

Curious on how that has been implemented? Join our Discord server. Here you can find out more about the **project**, who we are, and get the chance to enter in **whitelist spots**.

Don’t miss this chance: early adopters will have unique advantages! Join our [Discord Server](https://discord.gg/ydgjgar9Jx) to stay updated!

Official links
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_Website_: [tetrisgamenft.com](https://tetrisgamenft.com) _Twitter_: [@TetrisGameNFT](https://twitter.com/TetrisGameNFT) _Discord Server_: [discord.gg/ydgjgar9Jx](https://discord.gg/ydgjgar9Jx)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/281cefad2936afeacee2302346f91d18661fa086bf22cca32bdeab412c4b62c3.jpg)

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*Originally published on [Turtle Land](https://paragraph.com/@turtle-land/tetris-for-the-crypto-space)*