Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!mintaka!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!icad!gregory From: gregory@icad.COM (Jack Gregory) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Bug in Tetris allows any score Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 90 14:17:52 GMT Sender: usenet@icad.COM Distribution: usa Organization: ICAD Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 Sadly, there is a bug in Tetris (both BW and Color) which allows you to get any score. If you don't want to know what it is, then kill this message and go on. I am reporting this in the belief that it is better if everyone knows. I will no longer trust high scores, because this can happen accidently. To do it, you pause a tet while still high in the box, make the scoreboard go away (I forget the key to do it right now), and hold down the space bar. This apparently strokes the same algorithm that scores the tet when you drop it, ignoring that fact that you are paused. With rapid key repeat, the score gets very high very fast. Don't trust the scores that you hear about. --J Gregory