Piece and Stack

Piece

Piece noun - A broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete.

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Stack and piece are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stack" instead a noun "Piece".

Nearby Words: pieced, piecework, piecing

Stack noun - A considerable amount.

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Piece and stack are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Piece" instead a noun "Stack".

Nearby Words: stacked, stacker, stacking

musical	musical piece	musical stack
full	full piece	full stack
nice	nice piece	nice stack
exact	exact piece	exact stack
Other adjectives: short, solid, single, small, entire, large, great, huge, tiny, key, new, falling, extra, random, next, giant.

In Tetris games that utilize the Super Rotation System, mashing a rotation button while pushing the current piece (assuming it's not the 2x2 "O" piece) in the direction of a sufficiently step-ridden stack of blocks will allow your block to climb up the stack.

Source: Button Mashing
Tetris: The Grand Master 3 — Terror-Instinct fixes this by allowing a horizontally-laid I to "floor kick" off of the stack or the floor, but only once per piece.

Source: Rescued From The Scrappy Heap / Video Games
Many a run of Tetris has ended because the game denied a piece crucial to recovering out of an otherwise-unmanagable stack, something that could've been avoided with a different roll of the RNG.

Source: Luck-Based Mission

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