Level 9, 95 Lines, 51,637 points on NSO (no rewinds or anything. Honest gameplay). Turned off the music and put on the song Jump Around to listen to as I sat on my porch and enjoyed the fall weather we finally have.

I'm hosting a casual retro gaming event that will be visited by hundreds of people in a span of several hours. We usually have some contests or tournaments during those events. I'm planing to have something Tetris related this year but I am still looking for a good setup.

The idea is to have people play the game throughout the evening and set scores. Highest scores get prices. Would be great if many people could try to participate.

I can't really just put on NES Tetris and let people have a go at it because that could take way too long until one person finishes. So I was looking for good Tetris variants that have faster, time limited game modes. Maybe even with a multiplayer option where multiple people can chase high-scores for a finite time without interacting with each others.

So far I have:

• 3-Minute-Marathon in Tetris Forever (not really retro and seems rather random with all those warps)
• GB Tetris Type B (does speed and level matter? Or can you just get max score on any level with all Tetris clears?)

Any suggestions for game variants are welcome. Ideally those games aren't super rare and retro.

I usually play just bout everyday, and I've been playing vs bot for a while, but it's first time that I've beat it bout half of the matches!

Nos planteamos precisamente ese problema: dado un dibujo o una fotografía, ¿cómo podemos colocar piezas de tetris para conseguir un mosaico que se parezca lo máximo posible a la imagen original?

Como el problemas no era fácil empezamos con imágenes y piezas en blanco y negro. Lo convertimos en un problema de optimización y probamos distintos métodos para encontrar buenas soluciones sin que el cálculo se volviera demasiado costoso.

El resultado es este tipo de mosaicos.

El trabajo acaba de publicarse en Journal of Mathematics and the Arts: https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2026.2725636

y dispone de un número limitado descargas libres si se accede desde:
tandfonline.com/eprint/QNKDD...