Block
Block verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.
Make it
Make it verb - Succeed in a big way; get to the top.
Both terms in one sentence
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A similar was used in An Ache in Every Stake where the Three Stooges must deliver an ice block to a house atop a very long staircase, but the ice always melts by the time they make it to the top.
Source: Absurdly Long Stairway - This level includes objects that didn't make it into the finished game such as an invincibility pill and a poison block.
Source: Dummied Out / Puzzle Games -
They manage to make it to the top eight pairs, however, because everybody in their tournament block was also a unnamed "Boy" character.
Source: Video Game / Custom Robo
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