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Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by electroly on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:36AM (#27084217)
Very nice!

My initial reaction is: it's not giving me the piece I want. It's trying to force you to clear individual lines as soon as it is possible to do so. But in real Tetris, you want to clear four lines at a time to get double score, which may mean withholding a line clear when you could have done one.

Consider this replay: హටເח௨ඞܗТۑටܢݹ௫੬ຽߢ௧ලບঅযلЈǶ

It ends by giving me nothing but S pieces, because it wants me to take the single line clear. It won't stop giving S pieces until I do so. In actuality, any other piece would be preferable; there are available spots for all of them, and I can build up to a Tetris. But with the S piece, my only options are to sacrifice the Tetris for the single line clear, or create a hole in my stack.

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by andai on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:46AM (#27084279)
Tetris(Noun) The act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris.

Somehow went my entire life not knowing that meaning of the word!

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by input_sh on Saturday May 08, 2021 @03:54AM (#27084927)
It depends on the implementation of course, but clearing 4 lines at once usually brings a huge amount of points. For example, NES version at the first "level" (slowest speed):

1 line = 40, 2 lines = 100, 3 lines = 300, 4 lines = 1200.

It also increases the speed every 10 lines, so you want to plan accordingly for maximum score. You can get above that first level with either 400 points or 3600.

If you have some time to kill, highly recommend this and the follow up video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaqVGzhQTM

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by stormbrew on Saturday May 08, 2021 @03:56PM (#27090157)
In modern ("guideline") tetris T-spins multiline clears tend to actually be the most point-garnering moves. It's a bit weird that the game named tetris went that way but oh well.
Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by tome on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:32AM (#27085773)
"Tetris" as in "tetrahedron". mind.equals(blown).
Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by uhl on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:58AM (#27085933)
More like tetris as in Tetromino: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetromino
Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by zwp on Saturday May 08, 2021 @10:06AM (#27087246)
"Tetra" isn't completely unknown in English but perhaps the link is more obvious to Russian-speakers (the original author was Russian)? Is четыре/chetyre a cognate of Greek-derived tetra?

https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=ru&text=four

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by BrandoElFollito on Saturday May 08, 2021 @05:33AM (#27085434)
Could someone please explain what the string after "consider this replay" is?

I see a combination of characters loosely looking like some East Asian alphabet, I guess that this is some kind of encoding ?

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by dagurp on Saturday May 08, 2021 @05:42AM (#27085488)
To watch a replay you need to click the replay button and paste this string
Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by amelius on Saturday May 08, 2021 @05:46AM (#27085512)
Is this base64 but with Arabic chars included?
Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by spoonjim on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:12AM (#27085662)
Base2048. An encoding optimized for packing maximum data into a Tweet (which supports 280 characters, but with Unicode support).
Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by uhl on Saturday May 08, 2021 @08:51AM (#27086694)
That is fascinating! In particular, base2048 was designed after twitter adjusted the tweet limit to 280 characters, but started counting “heavy” codepoints as double, making the previously used base65536 less efficient in the context of a tweet.

See https://github.com/qntm/base2048#readme

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by azhenley on Saturday May 08, 2021 @10:22AM (#27087373)
I'd never heard of this either. It really is interesting!

I can't other articles on it other than that readme. Does anyone else know where I can learn more about it? Someone needs to make a Wikipedia page!

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by uhl on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:39PM (#27089661)
I think the reason is just that it isn't widely used. It's a very niche use-case, anyway. Even link-shorteners don't particularly benefit from something like this, and for all cases where the actual amount of data is concerned, simple base64 is more efficient.

But yeah, making a wikipedia entry and adding it to this list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding) could spread it a little further.

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by amelius on Saturday May 08, 2021 @12:17PM (#27088466)
I remember downloading binaries from Usenet using uudecode. Looks like Twitter is the new Usenet.
Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by Okawari on Saturday May 08, 2021 @04:55AM (#27085218)
I tried to see if I could stack a tetris. Made a 3 wide well, the game would give me L pieces to fill in the single line. Which made it pretty easy to stack up. At some point it gave me a single I piece, which I put in the middle of the 3 deep well. I would either get more I pieces or an L piece which I put in the well, the game would proceed to give me I pieces.

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Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by bonestamp2 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @11:26AM (#27087975)
Ya, it should be called Onetris.
Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by tomgp on Saturday May 08, 2021 @08:58AM (#27086748)
Ha! I just played exactly the same game!
Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by daniellarusso on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:12AM (#27086032)
Yeah, what about t-spins, too?

If it could always set me up for amazing t-spin plays, that would be really enjoyable, I think.

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by Twisell on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:35AM (#27084520)
Ended up exactly in the same situation. Unfortunately didn't thought about replay which is by the way a really nice feature.

Two bigs tower and a sad perfect spot to fit a L shape at the base of them :D

Re:Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the bes... by nannal on Saturday May 08, 2021 @03:27AM (#27084791)
This occurs because the goal of hatris is to stop you scoring any lines so lovetris wants you to get every line, but doesn't allow for tetris.