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How to Play Tetris: The Ultimate Essential Guide
486 pages, Paperback
Published August 28, 2025
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About the author
Aquila Goh
15 books4 followersExperience is the essence of reality, not understanding. To grasp the beauty of life, one must become one with it and the cosmos.
Aquila (AKA Galactoid), the mystic author of The Eternal Reflection novels and the How to Tetris guidebooks, knows this and thus sees more to life than materialism.
Thus, he hopes to help humanity by imparting his spiritual philosophy through his novels and Tetris books.
He has an M.A. in Existential Sociology. A spiritualist, he explores various philosophies, religions, and meditations to delve into mysticism, spirituality, and creative states.
When he is free, he plays video games, watches documentaries, reads, and streams Tetris.
He lives in Singapore, is single, and is in his 30s as of 2025.
Website:
https://howtotetris.com/
Social Media:
https://linktr.ee/GalactoidTetris
Aquila (AKA Galactoid), the mystic author of The Eternal Reflection novels and the How to Tetris guidebooks, knows this and thus sees more to life than materialism.
Thus, he hopes to help humanity by imparting his spiritual philosophy through his novels and Tetris books.
He has an M.A. in Existential Sociology. A spiritualist, he explores various philosophies, religions, and meditations to delve into mysticism, spirituality, and creative states.
When he is free, he plays video games, watches documentaries, reads, and streams Tetris.
He lives in Singapore, is single, and is in his 30s as of 2025.
Website:
https://howtotetris.com/
Social Media:
https://linktr.ee/GalactoidTetris
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September 3, 2025
I am an early reviewer for this book and this review is based on an advance copy I've read.
Before reading this book, I had around 500 hours played in modern tetris (I mostly play tetrio and jstris) and had stats of 2 PPS and 75 APM, pretty decent stats, I thought I knew a good chunk of tetris after watching and reading many guides on various tetris related topics, but I still struggle in some aspects, and I didn't know 100% why, I thought that I didn't play as much as I needed to to improve.
After reading this book, I now know many more things than just a few weeks ago! I learned the "why" behind my stacking choices, particularly the "don't create divisions in your stack" advice which is something I've never read anywhere else. Or even the advice where "Don't waste T" isn't actually something you should apply all the time, and you learn that there are cases where wasting T is optimal. The biggest eye opener for me is the downstacking chapter, I struggled a lot in 100L cheese race jstris, often getting 350 pieces placed per run, but right after reading this book, I got my PB of 277 pieces! And I only played around 15 runs at that point. I also learned many useful tips, the most prominent one for me is placing S and Z vertically during lst stacking, which made me do 20 tsd lst easily after literally just reading that SINGLE tip.
Overall, I managed to reach 100 apm average in jstris without playing too much after reading this book, it's amazing.
The book also offers good practice tools I've heard about and I can confirm they are all great. It also offers a nice conclusion at the end of each chapter, which makes the content easier to digest. This is the best tetris guide currently available in the internet, definitely buy it when you want to improve without pouring in thousands of hours like most top players.
Before reading this book, I had around 500 hours played in modern tetris (I mostly play tetrio and jstris) and had stats of 2 PPS and 75 APM, pretty decent stats, I thought I knew a good chunk of tetris after watching and reading many guides on various tetris related topics, but I still struggle in some aspects, and I didn't know 100% why, I thought that I didn't play as much as I needed to to improve.
After reading this book, I now know many more things than just a few weeks ago! I learned the "why" behind my stacking choices, particularly the "don't create divisions in your stack" advice which is something I've never read anywhere else. Or even the advice where "Don't waste T" isn't actually something you should apply all the time, and you learn that there are cases where wasting T is optimal. The biggest eye opener for me is the downstacking chapter, I struggled a lot in 100L cheese race jstris, often getting 350 pieces placed per run, but right after reading this book, I got my PB of 277 pieces! And I only played around 15 runs at that point. I also learned many useful tips, the most prominent one for me is placing S and Z vertically during lst stacking, which made me do 20 tsd lst easily after literally just reading that SINGLE tip.
Overall, I managed to reach 100 apm average in jstris without playing too much after reading this book, it's amazing.
The book also offers good practice tools I've heard about and I can confirm they are all great. It also offers a nice conclusion at the end of each chapter, which makes the content easier to digest. This is the best tetris guide currently available in the internet, definitely buy it when you want to improve without pouring in thousands of hours like most top players.
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