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Nelikko under way with 402 points: a stack of clay, birch, ice, pine and dusk-purple pieces in the well, the next piece and the Finnish controls panel beside it

NELIKKO

the falling-block puzzle, as finland invented it · helsinki 1989

The falling-block puzzle as Finland invented it, in a parallel Helsinki in 1989. Nelikko is Finnish for a group of four.

The screens are in Finnish, under snowfall, aurora and the silhouette of Uspenski Cathedral. Hold a piece, see the next one, soft or hard drop, climb the levels, and put your initials on the top ten. The terminal version shares the browser's scoreboard.

// in the well //

Nelikko's title screen: the name in pale ice letters over the seven pieces in their colours, and a pixel Helsinki cathedral below
Helsinki, 1989

// where to play //

BROWSER
▶ PLAY free, in the arcade. Nothing to install.
TERMINAL
pipx install magmacrunch-nelikko
then run nelikko. Shares the browser's scoreboard. Also in the magmacrunch terminal arcade.

// built with //

adenosinebrowser · JavaScript magmacrunch.engineterminal · Python

// credits //

game by magmacrunch media

original game Tetris was designed by Alexey Pajitnov and first released in 1984 on the Electronika 60. In this version, it was always invented by Finland. TETRIS is a trademark of The Tetris Company; NELIKKO is an unofficial tribute, not affiliated with or endorsed by it.