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Life & fun · July 2, 2018

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Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback

Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback launched on July 2, 2018 with 40 votes, #771 of 2,673 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

In plain words

Tetris with Words is a small word-based game combining mechanics of the classic falling-block puzzle with language elements. The game is designed for players seeking a casual gaming experience that blends familiar puzzle gameplay with wordplay. The product launches from a philosophy questioning modern systems and constraints, though specific gameplay mechanics are not detailed in the available information.

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From the sources

At some point we lost our way. It’s time to find it again. It is time to stop pretending the systems we’ve built are still built to serve us, and not the other way around. We know there’s no going back. You can only start from right now. And right now, this is the hand that we’ve been dealt. These are the constraints we need to work with. The challenges we face are difficult and complex, but not insurmountable. It starts with understanding how current systems are wired and the games being played within them: It doesn’t have to be this way. We have given away too much of ourselves, but we can take it back. We don’t have to accept what’s fed to us. We don’t have to play by the rules of…from indexzero.in

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