Complete three lines for two of grey blocks, and then complete four lines for four lines of grey blocks. Complete two lines and you'll produce one line of grey blocks. You can generate grey blocks by completing lines. These will fill up your board, and will make it much easier for you to fail. While playing Tetris 99, you'll quickly come up against grey blocks. This essentially means keeping your board clear, while sending grey blocks to opponents to trip them up. Like any other battle royale game, the way to victory is to be the last one standing. The key is to survive, clearing your board while others are knocked out of the game. The core Tetris mechanics are there, and if you've ever played a competitive version of Tetris (or battle Tetris) you'll be right at home. It's essentially a battle royale version of Tetris, with 99 players battling it out for supremacy. It's a brand new game, exclusive to Nintendo Switch Online. You may have heard about Tetris 99 over the last few days. Maanvi Singh is a freelance writer and a regular contributor to NPR.What is Tetris 99 - Is It a Battle Royale Game? "Go mountain biking, or rock climbing or have games night with your friends where you play really challenging games," she says.Īnd if all else fails, you can always try Tetris. What the new research does suggest, she says, "is that even in tough moments, we should push ourselves to do something challenging to get us out of the moment." "Mostly because, based on previous research, it's hard to find a situation where the experience of flow isn't a good thing." "I can't say I found this study particularly surprising at all," says Dunn, who wasn't involved in the research. "For me, it's mountain biking." For you, it could be chess or ballet. "Think of the activity that grabs your attention and doesn't let it go," says Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who studies happiness. And if you'd rather put down your digital device, no worries. And although playing Tetris is a reliable way to achieve flow, other absorbing video games would work too. The results line up with a growing body of research showing that regular doses of flow can boost our mood and help us manage stress. "It wasn't a huge difference, but we think it's noticeable," Sweeny says. But the third group reported slightly higher levels of positive emotions (on average, about a quarter of a point higher on a five-point scale) and slightly lower levels of negative emotions (half a point lower on a five-point scale). In the end, everyone experienced a degree of worry. And everyone else played the classic version, which adapts to each player's individual skill level and gets them into that state of flow. Some played an extremely challenging, fast version - which frustrated them. Some played a painfully slow, easy version of the game - which bored them. While the participants awaited their attractiveness scores, the researchers had them play Tetris. "I know, it's kind of cruel, but we found it's a really effective way to get people stressed out," Sweeny says. Sweeny and her collaborators gathered a group of more than 300 college students and told them their peers would be evaluating how attractive they were. The study, published recently in the journal Emotion, focused on people who were waiting for uncertain, potentially life-altering news, and it found that a flow-inducing game of Tetris could help them cope. Instead, Sweeny's research suggests, you may want to turn off Twitter alerts, and try distracting yourself with a brain game. You may be tempted to think obsessively about the possibilities. So say, you're waiting for a date to text you back, or for your LSAT scores, or - as much of the country will be doing on Tuesday - waiting for the election results. "You lose your self-awareness, and time is just flying by." "The state of flow is one where you're completely absorbed or engaged in some kind of activity," Sweeny explains. Her latest research suggests that Tetris can ease us through periods of anxiety by getting us to a blissfully engrossed mental state that psychologists call "flow." "Years of my life were lost disappearing into a game of Tetris on my Nintendo system," says Kate Sweeny, a psychologist at the University of California, Riverside.īut maybe the hours she spent lining those little blocks ("tetriminos") into perfect rows of 10 weren't a total waste. If you've ever played Tetris - whether it was at an old-school Gameboy, or just on your iPhone - then you know: It's 8-bit enchantment.
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