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Quinn - today's Time Waster

Quinn Tetris
Quinn is a free Mac-style Tetris (ever heard of it?) clone with a few tricks up its sleeve. Aside from it's smooth, clean interface, Quinn offers customizable keyboard controls and downloadable custom backgrounds and piece styles.

Quinn's key feature is network multiplayer (via the Internet or locally through Bonjour), and there are multiple ways to determine a multiplayer winner: highest total score, highest score reached, longest play time, and most lines-per-minute.

When we checked the list of Quinn servers on the developer's site there were only 2 people playing on the Internet, so you may want to stick to networked Bonjour play with your office mates. If you are looking for strictly Internet-multiplayer Tetris, try Blockles.

Blockles: Multi-player online Tetris clone - Time Waster

Blockles
Think you're pretty good at Tetris? Well playing against a computer is one thing, but how do you think you'd fare playing against other hard-core Tetris players? Blockles is an on-line competitive Tetris-clone from the makers of online dating site i'minlikewithyou. And it's the quickest way we're aware of to find out if you suck at Tetris.

Gameplay is pretty much exactly what you'd expect. You use the arrow keys to rotate blocks and hit the spacebar to drop them quickly to the bottom of the screen. You can either join a game hosted by another user or create your own if you're a registered user. Matches can have just a few players, or as many as 8.

There are a few interesting aspects to the multiplayer gameplay. For example if you break two or more lines apart at the same time, each of your competitors will get a new line of blocks. That makes Blockles a bit more fast-paced than the original Tetris game, but also a bit more addictive.

[via Silicon Alley Insider

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