T-Spin Single Setups

T-Spin Single Triple Single

This stacking method, discovered by fiddlesworth, produces 12 garbage lines in Tetris DS standard vs. mode while using roughly half as many tetrominoes (15 to 21) as the common "three tetrises" opening (30 to 35). It requires Hold piece and SRS.

You can perform this stack from an empty playfield if any of the following is true of the first bag of seven tetrominoes:

• S before J
• Z before L
• J before S before T (hold the J)
• L before Z before T (hold the L)

It is especially useful if your first tetromino is S or Z, but it does have a speed penalty on games with a slow soft drop.

Start with an S–J or Z-L:

Setup with S and J

Mirror image with Z and L

Build it (S and J depicted)

O before Z

Z before O

Soft-drop a T and spin it:

Soft-drop a T

Rotate right

T-spin single (2 garbage)

Build it more. You'll need to soft-drop the S, and you'll need to switch the O and Z if you got Z before O in the first bag:

After single

Drop J before O

Or drop O before J

Soft-drop a T and spin it twice:

Soft drop T

Rotate left

S00per Rotation

Back-to-back T-spin triple (7 garbage)

And it leaves room for a back-to-back T-spin single (3 garbage).

References

• Fiddlesworth's post on Nintendo board
• Fiddlesworth's post on TC board

SD Tetris

This setup involves an EZ t-spin single, t-spin double, and tetris. The benefit of this setup is that it requires very little foresight. At any time during the setup you can abandon the entire thing and focus on tetrising or clearing garbage. The completed setup sends 12 lines of garbage to the other player, and should require around 20 tetriminos from start to finish. It is recommended that you try this only if you get a J or L piece very early in the game.

Possible setups

Continuing from the left diagram above. Soft drop a T on the left side of the playing field, then as soon as it lands rotate it like shown for a T-spin single. Make sure to rotate the T before it locks into place. After the bottom row clears you'll see that a T-spin double formation is set up and ready to go. While waiting on your next T tetrimino you can fill things up in preparation for a finishing tetris.

Possible continuation

And now the almighty tetris

See also

• Twist - Explanation of twists such as T-Spins
• T-Spin methods - Various methods of creating T-Spins