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Tetris Mystery Cache

Hidden : 6/27/2009
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

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 Hints ()

Qebc gur svefg cvrpr vagb gur obggbz evtug pbeare.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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