
Jay and Elle (Japanese: ジェイ&エル, pronounced as Jei & Eru) are a set of twins who delight in causing mischief, much to the chagrin of Ai. Zed (Japanese: ゼット, pronounced as Zetto) is a big robot with a red Z-tetromino emblazoned on his front, who serves as the Starship's housekeeper and chef, and who is the adoptive father of Ess. She resembles Puyo Puyo's Raffine and Strawberryna, along with Rhythm Thief R's Maria, and wields a parasol as a weapon. She believes Zed to be her 'Papa', but it is really Ex (an 'extra' Tetris character based on the X pentomino) who is her biological father. He is based on the O tetromino.Įss (Japanese: エス, pronounced as Esu) is a space Sci-Fi Southern Belle type girl, with a sharp, abusive tongue. O (オー, pronounced as Oo) is the ship's mascot that supervises the ship, consisting of a yellow sphere with arms and a face, sitting on a cloud, with two O-tetromino pigtails for hair, resembling Puyo Puyo's Carbuncle. He wields a chakram-like disc and references spinning a lot, due to his being based on the T tetromino (and the mechanic of T-spins). Tee (Japanese: ティ, pronounced as Ti) is the youthful pretty boy captain of the group, resembling Puyo Puyo's Schezo and Maguro. They serve as the crew of the Starship Tetra, named Teto gou (テト号) in Japanese. In Puyo Puyo Tetris, each block has its own personification. You can help Tetris Wiki by expanding it. However, be careful not to rotate it, or move it to the left or right, or else. In the fanmade adaption, the piece is portrayed as a single square when shown as coming next. In "Tetris Heaven" as concieved of by Randall Monroe in /888/, the "Heaven Block" is the exact size and shape required to eliminate every open row up to the highest column. In Magical Tetris Challenge, there are minoes that are 3×3, 4×4, and 5×5 squares to make the gameplay more challenging. Though the tetromino is moved and rotated as a unit, once it locks, the components separate by colors and fall. In The Next Tetris, Sticky mode of Tetris Worlds and Tetris Mania, Jewelry Master, and Alizarin Tetris, some tetrominoes are multiminoes, that is, the tetromino itself is divided into visible components. **Even though the t-tetromino in the Tetris logo is not split into four minoes. *As of 2009, if hardware limitations do not allow all colors to be used, tetrominoes have distinct hues and patterns to differentiate themselves.

Other names include straight, stick, strike, line, vav (or vov, waw), final nun, one, the cyan piece, the long skinny one, the slim jim, tetril, TGM-red, hot shot, long, slim dandy, the flashmaker, long boi, big poppa, thin lizzy, stack-em-up, Euclid's Arrow, four on the floor, George and hero.ĭue to I's design as a Tetromino, it can be used for a Tetris Line Clear, because of a design of 4 Mino's (Blocks) tall. This tetromino is very useful for filling deep 1-wide wells within your stack (Diagram 1), and is the only one to be able to clear 4 lines (a Tetris) within traditional rulesets (Diagram 2). If you know any other names for a tetromino, please list them in the section corresponding to the tetromino by editing the section. Tetris is still patented today, and the patent will expire in 2032.


Another patent application was submitted in 2012. They were patented in 1996, but it expired two decades later. The idea of tetrominoes is copyrighted to them.

The Tetris Company owns the copyright and trademark on all seven tetrominoes. The diagrams below will use the guideline colors. Since then, the color schemes associated with SRS and TGM Rotation have dominated new games, and "the blue piece" is always J (see below). However, before about 2001, these colors varied from product to product, making it difficult for people who play different games to discuss "the blue piece". Mario, or black-and-white systems*, each tetromino has a different color. In most games other than Tetris for NES, Tetris & Dr. Each tetromino has a letter name and several alternative names.
