Did you know it was World Tetris Day last week? We love Tetris in our house- my Dad used to play it when he was a kid and I got Tetris Dual one year for Christmas which Lottie and I play loads. It’s the 35th birthday of Tetris!
We were really excited to hear that a new game called Tetris Speed has been launched. This is a card game and involves putting one card face down in the middle of the table and dividing the rest of the cards up between the players. The first card is turned over and you’re away. Each card has a picture on it of a Tetrimino piece and then a smaller picture depicting the next piece to be laid, the race is on for the players to search through their hand and find the next piece the quickest, the player who puts all their cards down first is the winner.
Tetris Speed is huge fun and had us in fits of laughter trying to beat each other, it’s much harder than you think for what looks like such a simple game- you can’t take your eye off the pile for a second or the other player will be ahead of you. There’s no turn taking either, it’s each player for him or herself! Lottie was running along really well and getting rid of card after card when suddenly she couldn’t go and I could so I got the momentum- literally anyone can win if they are fast enough. Even though I won twice in a row and dinner was ready Lottie was still asking to play again! I am going to have to beat her again this evening!
We think this is a fab game for all the family, it doesn’t take too long to play but is loads of fun and because it’s in a box we can take it out and about with us too. It’s kind of like Tetris meets snap but for big kids- you really do have to use your memory! You can also make it bigger if more people want to play by adding a second set of cards in which is a brilliant idea.
We do still love Tetris Dual though and play it quite a lot, we reviewed this with some friends last year and you can find the full review here but were lucky enough to be sent another copy which we were excited to pass on to Lottie’s best friend Emily and her little sister, Isla, for them to try.
Emily and Isla loved it as much as us, they had a great time playing after school the other day. Isla is nearly 6 and Emily is nearly 8 and they found it perfect to play together.
They told us it was like a jigsaw that you had to really think about but also at the same time had to stop the other person getting their jigsaw finished!
We love the fact that Tetris are always coming up with new ways that you can play for a game that has been around such a long time and we can’t wait to see what they come up with next.
The people at Ideal and Norton PR have kindly given us a copy of both Tetris Dual and Tetris Speed to give away to one lucky family, so don’t miss our competition below!
Disclaimer: We were gifted Tetris Dual and Tetris Speed but all thoughts and opinions are our own
I’d challenge my hubby! We do love to be competitive!!!
I’d challenge my son.
I’d challenge my hubby or son
I would like to challenge my sister as I used to play Tetris against her as a kid 🙂
I’d challenge my 2 sons.
I would challenge my eldest son Ben and then my husband
definitely my daughter Millie, she loves tetris!!
Would challenge my son. He would be good at this 🙂
My Nephews – it may be one game I’ll win
I would challenge my daughter to a game, I bet we would both have fun.
I would challenge my Grandson (anthony harrington)
I would challenge the kids and maybe I’d win!!
My son. He’d love this!
I think i would have to challenge my niece and nephew.
I would challenge my other half – we love all games!
I would challenge my eight year old grandson Harrison!