This cache was placed on the 25th anniversary of the release of the
landmark puzzle video game, Tetris. The name Tetris comes from a
combination of
tetra (each piece is made up of a different
arrangement of 4 blocks) and tennis, the designer's favorite sport.
Since its release in 1984, Tetris has consistently ranked as one of
the greatest games of all-time, having sold tens of millions of
copies and spawned countless spin-offs and variations.
Needless to say, the cache will not be
found in the middle of Marshall Lake. To figure out the true
coordinates, you will need to play and correctly solve a simulated
game of Tetris.
Gameplay: In this game (as with standard Tetris), your
goal is to sequentially place each of fifteen given Tetrominos (see
attached file) into a 6 x 10 well (6-high x 10-wide) so that no
open spaces remain. Rotating the Tetronimos is allowed, but
reflection is not. The order the pieces fall is given:
(first) L O T Z * J T * I J * I J Z * S J L *
I * (last)
It is up to you to determine which particular piece fits where
in the final puzzle (there is only one solution). In regular
Tetris, when a row is completed, it disappears. In this puzzle
cache that will not happen since you need all the pieces together
to get the final coordinates, but when a piece is placed that
completes a row, an asterisk (*) is shown to denote that.
Furthermore, each Tetromino piece has 4 letters associated with it
(see attached image), which when correctly assembled will give the
coordinates for the final cache.
NOTE: When rotating pieces, keep the relative orientation
of the letters consistent with their original locations, and in the
final solution be sure to consider each letter whether upside down,
sideways, or rightside up.
Cache is log-lonly and you can check your answers for this
puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
Additional Waypoints
Tetris
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