Tetris: Game Guides
How-to walkthroughs, mechanics, modes, maps, settings, and systems.
September 2026
3 posts
Classic Tetris World Championship Explained
Every other guide on this site covers a Tetris built after 2001, when the Guideline standardized rotation, hold and 7-bag. The one tournament with real prize money and 129 entrants in 2026 ignores all of it and plays the 1989 NES cartridge instead. Here is how that tournament is actually run.
Tetris Guideline Explained: Rules, Versions, Exceptions
Every guide on this site says "modern Guideline Tetris" as background and moves on. Here is what that word is actually short for: a yearly document, four known revisions, an indispensable list and a recommended one, a trademarked theme song, and at least four officially licensed games that break it anyway.
Tetris Effect Modes Explained: SS Grades and What to Play
The Effect Modes menu sorts fifteen modes into four groups by mood rather than difficulty, and each one grades you against a published threshold. Ultra wants 35,000 points in three minutes for an SS. Sprint wants 40 lines in 1:10. Master wants 150 lines at 20G.
