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Tetris four line clears provide maximum score jumps

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Erasing a single row is for cowards. The game heavily incentivizes hoarding an entire vertical column to drop the long straight piece and clear four rows simultaneously. The massive point reward is the only thing that justifies the sheer anxiety of waiting for that one specific shape.

Tetris four line clears provide maximum score jumps
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