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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
This comic shows the popular video game ''{{w|Tetris}}'', in which you use different shaped pieces to fill in lines to score points. Filling multiple lines by adding a single piece results in bonus points. Normally all pieces — typically referred to as "{{w|Tetromino|Tetrominos}}" — are made up of four small squares. This has also been the case for all the pieces at the bottom of the game; however, some parts of some blocks have been erased, likely when a line had been deleted because it was full.
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This comic shows the popular video game ''{{w|Tetris}}'', in which you use different shaped pieces to fill in lines to score points. Filling multiple lines by adding a single piece results in bonus points. Normally all pieces — typically referred to as "Tetrominos" — are made up of four small squares. This has also been the case for all the pieces at the bottom of the game; however, some parts of some blocks have been erased, likely when a line had been deleted because it was full.
  
 
Heaven, in ''Tetris'', is when you get the perfect piece that fills out all the other pieces on the board. The falling piece here is really odd, but it fits the 18 bare spaces exactly to make it possible to remove 6 lines in a row, compared to the four that is normally possible using the "I" tetromino (represented in ''Tetris'' as a straight line of four blocks, and in this comic as a straight brown bar). On top of the heavenly feeling of getting a piece that fits, the top score is also about to be smashed, as the player was at the moment only one point until reaching it!
 
Heaven, in ''Tetris'', is when you get the perfect piece that fills out all the other pieces on the board. The falling piece here is really odd, but it fits the 18 bare spaces exactly to make it possible to remove 6 lines in a row, compared to the four that is normally possible using the "I" tetromino (represented in ''Tetris'' as a straight line of four blocks, and in this comic as a straight brown bar). On top of the heavenly feeling of getting a piece that fits, the top score is also about to be smashed, as the player was at the moment only one point until reaching it!

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