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From: meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Tetris 35,000 points, that good?
Summary: It get's boring-here's a challenge
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Date: 8 Sep 90 23:46:11 GMT
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In article <5402.26e83b61@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> syzy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Don Lee) writes:
>In article <90928@cc.utah.edu>, TJACOBS@cc.utah.edu writes:
>> A friend of mine has achieved 35000 or so points in Tetris (the game not the
>> DA) and is wondering if thats a respectable score or not.
>> 
>> Anybody have a higher score?
>> 
>> Just curious.
>-- 
>That's a very respectable score - was that with or without look ahead?  A
>friend of mine and I had a bit of a competition on Tetris a while back and
>I managed to get 61,000+ (once - with look ahead) to edge out his 55,000+
>score. I think I've gotten above 30,000 only about five times. 

I can play forever, and have reached 30,000 thousand and managed to
clear out everything on the bottom. The game gets pretty boring. This
summer for a challenge I started games on level 9 with 13 layers of
trash. It took a while but eventually and now repeatedly I can clear
out all of the trash and have nothing left on the bottom.

Your patterns of play and your consideration of what is below will
probably change a lot from the normal game. Once you've done it for 
while though, even this becomes boring.

-Eric
meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu