Game:

Tetris Party (2008)

Duration: 9:14

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Shadow
Background: Pyramid
Music: 2dpp

Shadow mode...is really quite something else, to say the least. It's probably the mode I have the most trouble with, but also the one that I find the most engaging on a certain intellectual level.

The idea is "simple" (I suppose you could call it that), because you have to fill in the gray blocks with tetriminos and the Beginner's Tetris one, two, and three block pieces. It would be incredibly challenging, if not impossible without them.

Other than that, just fill up the area within the time limit without too many extra blocks sticking out around the edges. There's a certain threshold before you reach failure, but I'm not sure what it is exactly. The most dangerous blunder possible is actually leaving a shadow space unoccpuied in the middle of your stack...because then you can never clear the puzzle without the whole shadow covered. You can only have subtractively lost points for placing pieces outside the shadow--it's impossible to win with an empty space in your reproduction of the shadow's spaces.

The biggest challenge is to make sure that there's always a way to drop a piece onto the matrix such that it fills the shadow. This sounds simple enough, but the biggest potential pitfall is when you start filling in areas that don't have shadow spaces all the way down to the floor. You can't add a tetrimino to the stack with a sheer wall of pieces and nothing to hang from. That's the way I usually end up messing myself up.

I'm actually really surprised that I managed to do as well as I did here without making a serious mistake...I'll admit that my first time through most of these puzzles (except maybe Apple, but I'm not 100% sure on it) was usually an astounding failure.

Also, what the heck kind of hamburger is that supposed to be?

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