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Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games

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163 points juancroldan | 2 comments | 09 Apr 25 13:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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jstanley ◴[09 Apr 25 14:47 UTC] No.43632752[source]▶
> Before we implemented this, we played entire games with not a single stick piece in over 100 pieces

Are you sure there wasn't some other bug? There's a 6/7 chance of not getting a stick piece, which means for 100 pieces in a row there's (6/7)^100 = about 1 in 5 million.

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1. taneq ◴[09 Apr 25 15:55 UTC] No.43633535[source]▶
Unless they weren't seeding their RNG, which means every game could be the same.
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2. juancroldan ◴[09 Apr 25 16:15 UTC] No.43633760[source]▶
PICO-8 initializes it for you upon loading the game