stackyFACTSThe beloved tile-matching pastime was fiercely imported to the West by a wealthy retailer that now strictly sells overpriced cologne and distressed jeans. Abercrombie boldly sold thousands of sets to wealthy flappers who wanted to look exotic and mysterious.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Games →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Moving colorful blocks around is fun, but fighting the Soviet government for software rights is where the real game was played. Because Alexey Pajitnov…
Discover more
Korobeiniki is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song about a peddler trying to sell goods to a girl, but you almost certainly know it as the inescapable…
Discover more
Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov brought a gray Nintendo Game Boy loaded with Tetris aboard the Soyuz TM-17 spacecraft in 1993, making it the very…
Discover more
Emperors were heavily placing these black and white stones on grids centuries before Rome was even a functioning empire. It easily holds the crown for the…
Discover more
If you existed purely as a giant spiked rectangle of concrete forced to hover in one spot forever, you would be furious too. They wait for hours just to slam…
Discover more
Despite lacking modern graphical fidelity or violent multiplayer combat, dedicated enthusiasts gather annually to master the classic block-stacking arcade…
Discover more