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Bug in Tetris allows any score

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From: Jack Gregory
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 14:17
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Sadly, there is a bug in Tetris (both BW and Color) which allows you
to get any score.  If you don't want to know what it is, then kill
this message and go on.  I am reporting this in the belief that it is
better if everyone knows.  I will no longer trust high scores, because
this can happen accidently.

To do it, you pause a tet while still high in the box, make the
scoreboard go away (I forget the key to do it right now), and hold
down the space bar.  This apparently strokes the same algorithm that
scores the tet when you drop it, ignoring that fact that you are
paused.  With rapid key repeat, the score gets very high very fast.

Don't trust the scores that you hear about.

--J Gregory
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