Drinking Game / Tetris

In general

• Take a drink every time you misdrop a piece.
  • Take two if the misdropped piece is an I-piece that would've otherwise scored a Tetris.
  • Finish your drink if the misdrop led right into a Game Over.
• In games with bidirectional rotation, take a drink if you rotate a piece 3 or more times and it wasn't part of a twist maneuver.
• Take a drink every time the game hits instant-drop speed a.k.a. "20G".
• Take a drink every time you perform a "Split". That is, you clear two or three lines and one or two intervening rows remain intact.
  • Take a second drink if you're playing Sega's 1999 version of Tetris, which does recognize Splits, or Mission mode in Tetris DS if the current objective is to make a Split.
• Take a drink every time any of the following tracks (arrangements count) plays during a round: "Korobeiniki", "Katyusha", or the Sega Tetris theme.
• Take a drink for every 15 pieces you go without an I-piece.^note Note that this is very unlikely to happen in The Grand Master and not possible at all in Guideline Tetris games due to their tailored randomizers.
• Take a drink every time you get an O-piece and there's no surface in your playfield that's at least two cells wide.
• Toast every time you get a Bravo / All Clear.
• Take a drink every time you end up with an overhang. Unless you're playing TGM2 or 3 and thus can fix it easily with a firm drop.
• Take a drink if your first piece is an S or Z, or an O followed by the former two (i.e., an unavoidable overhang). Take it preemptively if you're playing a game with three or more piece previews.^note Note that this won't happen in TGM, as its randomizer won't deal out any of these as the first piece.
• Toast every time you complete the "Secret Grade" challenge^note A full playfield except for holes forming a ">" sign as tall as the playfield.
• If a game you're playing features The Backwards Я in its logo, take a shot of vodka.

Multiplayer in general

• Take a drink if you see that enough garbage is queued up that locking the current piece, even if you clear lines, will kill you.
• In games that recognize combos and offer a bonus for them, take a drink every time someone starts using the center 4-wide strategy (setting up a central shaft four cells wide for combo line clears).
  • Take another drink if you don't use center 4-wide and you beat them anyway.
• Take a drink if you pull off a Tetris entirely with garbage lines.

Classic Nintendo Tetris (Nintendo NES version and Game Boy version in particular)

• Take a drink if a misdropped piece results in a cascade of further-misdropped pieces that reach the top and kill you.
• Take a drink if you reach Level 29.
  • Toast if you get to Level 30.
• Take a drink if you manage to do what later games would declare a T-Spin.

Classic Sega Tetris Games

• Across all games:
  • Take a drink if you realize you're playing with a Power-On-Pattern.
  • Take a drink if you manage to Cap the score, lines, or level counter.
  • Take a drink every time you see the monkey mascot.
• In Bloxeed:
  • Take a drink if you get an item that worsens your stack.
  • Take a drink if a rising garbage line forces a Game Over.
• In Flash Point:
  • Take a drink if the bonus timer runs out.
  • Toast if you clear all the puzzles.
• In Sega's 1999 version of Tetris:
  • Take a drink every time you successfully line up three cherries, bananas, or crowns on the slot reels.
  • Take a drink if you clear a Two-One split line clear and thus earn a tiny amount of points.
  • If you clear five or more lines at once with a Joint piece, take a drink for every line after the fourth.
  • Toast if you make it to The Moon, and again if you survive the 199 second end roll to make it to The Edge Of The World.
  • Toast if you manage to clear the entire game with only the counter-clockwise rotation button for the 10-million point bonus.
    • Take a drink and Facepalm if you accidentally use the clockwise rotation button while trying this.
  • When playing the UFO Catcher on the Sega Dreamcast port, take a drink every time you fail to catch a character.

Tetris DX

• Take a drink every time you make a piece climb back up. Then chug if you use this exploit to rack up points, until you actually put the piece down.

Tetris: The Grand Master series

• In TGM1 and 2, take a drink every time you try to rotate a horizontal I off the floor. Take another if you actually have the clearance to do so^note the 2 cells under the third block from the left must be empty.
• Finish your drink if your game ends due to a torikan^note take more than 3'25" to reach level 500 in TGM 2+ T.A. Death, take more than 7 minutes to reach the same in TGM 3 Master, etc..
• In TGM3, if you get a Promotional Exam in Master Mode, don't take any drinks during the entire round. Instead, if you pass, toast and then drink. If you fail, skip the "toast" part.
  • Double the amounts if it's for an m or Master rank.
  • Throw a party if it's for the Grand Master rank, as you're one of the literally less than 15 people in the world who are confirmed to have it.
  • The same goes with a demotional exam (indicated by a subtle playfield shake). If you lose your current rank, drink until you forget that the exam ever happened.
• In TGM3, take a drink every time the game detects a T-Spin clear. Take another if the line clear could've been done without a T-Spin.
• If you're playing Big Mode in TGM1 or TGM3's Sakura Mode Stage EX3, finish your drink if you lock a piece into an even-numbered row, rendering the lines that the piece is on and everything below it un-clearable.
• Take a drink every time you fall victim to "Mihara's conspiracy"^note TGM will attempt to kick your piece right, and if that fails, it will attempt to kick left instead. This means that there are certain rotation cases that will have a different outcome if the setup is horizontally mirrored.
• Take a drink every time you recognize "Hardening Drops" within the current background music.
• In TGM3, take a drink every time you try to start a game in Classic Rule, but you pick World Rule by mistake (since the cursor defaults to World Rule).
• If you are playing Master or Shirase mode and another player starts a game up in Sakura mode, thus overriding your music with a potentially-unfitting theme, take drinks depending on what music would normally apply to your situation: One for the last Master theme / Shirase lv. 0-499 theme, two for Shirase 500-699, three for Shirase 700-999, and finish your drink if it's Shirase 1000 and beyond.

Games with Super Rotation System a.k.a. modern / "Guideline" Tetris

• T-Spins:
  • Take a drink every time you attempt to set up a T-Spin but you end up making a mess that doesn't work.
  • Take a celebratory drink every time you get a T-Spin Triple. Then take another one to ease the pain if it's a game that doesn't recognize T-Spin Triples.
• Take a drink every time you perform an "S-Spin" Triple or "Z-Spin" Triple. Then another because it doesn't award anything special.
• In variable-goal Marathon modes, take a drink every time you get a Tetris and you had more than 1 Goal left to the next level.^note A single line clear awards 1 Goal, and clearing more lines at once awards more Goal per line. Scoring a Tetris gets you 8 Goal but the points per line don't make up for it. However, any excess Goal doesn't carry over to the next level.
• If you play Sega or TGM games, take a drink every time you misdrop a piece because you're too used to Sega colors and initial piece orientations.
  • If you play TGM, take a drink every time you misdrop because you tried to firm-drop a piece.
• Take a drink if you tried to twist a piece into a tight spot and it popped out instead.
• In games with infinite spin/shift, chug if you keep a piece active on the floor for more than 3 seconds, and keep chugging until you lock the piece.

Puyo Puyo Tetris

See Puyo Puyo's respective Drinking Game page.

Tetris 99

• You see that badge attack percentage boost indicator below your placement and KO displays? Also apply that to your drinks.
• Take a drink if the round starts with 10 or more players targeting you.
  • Then take a drink for every player you KO due to the attack multiplier for number of opponents targeting you.
• Take a drink if you finish in the bottom 50.
  • Finish your drink if you finish in the bottom 10.
  • Drown your sorrows if you finish in 99th.
• Take a drink for every player who disconnects during the pre-round countdown.
• Take a drink if you go into the final 50 with no badge boost.
  • Take a swig if you go into the final 10 with no badge boost.
• Toast if you win the round.
• In Invictus mode, take a drink for every 5 CPU opponents on the results screen.

Fan games

• Take a shot every time a trademark-friendly substitute term is used for a four-line clear in place of "Tetris".