{"id":11400,"date":"2024-03-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:55:57","slug":"anyone-can-play-tetris-but-architects-engineers-and-animators-alike-use-the-math-concepts-underlying-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/anyone-can-play-tetris-but-architects-engineers-and-animators-alike-use-the-math-concepts-underlying-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone can play Tetris, but architects, engineers and animators alike use the math concepts underlying the game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Tetris has hooked people for decades.\n AP Photo\/Richard Drew<\/a><\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\nLeah McCoy<\/a>, Wake Forest University<\/a><\/em><\/span>\n\n

With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved to adapt to new technologies like game systems, phones and tablets. But until January 2024, nobody had ever been able to beat it.<\/p>\n\n

A teen from Oklahoma holds the Tetris title after he crashed the game on Level 157 and beat the game<\/a>. Beating it means the player moved the tiles too fast for the game to keep up with the score, causing the game to crash. Artificial intelligence can suggest strategies<\/a> that allow players to more effectively control the game tiles and slot them into place faster \u2013 these strategies helped crown the game\u2019s first winner. <\/p>\n\n

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