Block Drop guide

Goal

Fit falling blocks into complete rows and clear them before the stack reaches the top.

How to play

• Each piece falls automatically; you move it sideways and rotate it on the way down.
• A row with no gaps clears and everything above it drops by one.
• Drop a piece instantly when you know where it goes, rather than waiting for it to fall.
• The run ends when a new piece has no room to enter the board.

Controls

• The left and right arrows move the piece and the down arrow soft-drops it.
• The up arrow rotates clockwise and Z rotates the other way.
• Space hard-drops the piece straight down, C holds it for later, and Escape pauses.

Technique

Keep the stack flat and avoid burying a hole - a covered gap cannot be cleared until every row above it goes. Watch the next piece, not the current one, and if you leave a well open for a long straight piece, keep it in the same column.

Scoring

• One row scores 100, two score 300, three score 500 and four at once score 800, each multiplied by your level.
• Clearing four rows or landing a T-spin twice in a row scores half as much again, and emptying the board entirely is worth 3000.
• The speed increases as you progress, so scores climb until the stack outruns you.