Swipe or use the buttons. On a keyboard: arrows to move and rotate, space to drop, C to hold, P to pause.
About Block Drop
Free falling-blocks puzzle with all seven shapes, a ghost piece, a hold slot, a three-piece next queue and fifteen levels of increasing speed.
Alexey Pajitnov wrote the original in Moscow in 1984 on an Electronika 60, a machine with no graphics, so the blocks were made of brackets. Forty years on, the reason it has never been bettered is the shape set: seven pieces is few enough to hold all of them in your head and just awkward enough that they never quite fit. The S and Z pieces in particular cannot be laid flat next to each other, which is what stops a good player from simply building a level floor for ever. The pieces here come from a seven-bag - every shape appears once per bag in a shuffled order - so you can count on the long straight one turning up rather than waiting twenty drops for it. That is the modern standard, and it makes the game about planning rather than luck.
Frequently asked questions
What is the faint outline at the bottom?๏ผ
The ghost piece: it shows where the falling shape will land. You can switch it off in the options if you would rather judge it yourself.
What does hold do?๏ผ
It parks the current piece and gives you the next one. Swap it back later. You get one hold per piece, so it cannot be used to shuffle endlessly.
How do I play on a phone?๏ผ
Swipe left and right to move, swipe down to drop it fast, and tap to turn the piece. There are buttons underneath as well if you prefer them.
Why does the same piece keep coming?๏ผ
It should not. Pieces are dealt from a seven-bag, so all seven shapes appear once before any of them repeats.
How fast does it get?๏ผ
The level rises every ten lines and the pieces fall faster each time, up to level fifteen, where it stops speeding up so it stays hard rather than impossible.
Can I start on a harder level?๏ผ
Yes - pick level 4 or 8 in the options if level 1 is too slow to be interesting.
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