tetrisHe who haven’t played the game of tetris is either too young or too old to play a game. Tetris, the four segmented wonder was created by Alexey Pajitnov on 6th June 1984 and has since made the whole world addicted to its simple yet strategic gameplay requiring quick reflex actions. Derived from Greek numerical prefix ‘tetra’ - meaning four, the game has seen so many changes and there are so many variants available that it has own an award of “Game With the Most Official and Unofficial Variants” by Guinness World Records. Do you know that Faiz Chopdat was jailed for four months for playing this game?

Actually he was playing Tetris on his cellphone while on a flight to Manchester, England. He refused to stop playing after being repeatedly warned by the cabin staff. He holds the award for “Longest Prison Sentence for playing a Video Game”. He must be one of tetris fanatics like my brother whose definition of a good dream was a falling “I” tetromino which will swipe out four rows at a time and a bad dream was a continuous shower of “S” and “Z” shaped ones. Did you have same feelings with the game?nes_tetris_box_front