Here the black outline is one of the places you can put the funny shaped block. The player moves and rotates the blocks and stacks them up: How does one make a computer program to play tetris? Or more generally, how does one play tetris in the first place? The rules of tetris seem to me to be better viewed than explained, but I’ll give a quick overview of tetris gameplay and tetris strategies.Īs I’m sure most of you know, in tetris you have blocks of four ( tetrominoes) falling from the top of the board.