Can You Always Win a Game of Tetris?

If you played the game perfectly, could you always win a game of Tetris? Or is there some sequence of blocks that could force you to lose the game, no matter how good at the game you are? Here, we take a look at some of the mathematics behind a theoretical game of Tetris and reason through whether it's possible to win.

For the full proof described in this video, see Heidi Burgiel's "How to Lose at Tetris": https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.55.8562&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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