4.4444 Structures

Prof. T. Weisswange (See solution)

Herb's playing a game of Tetris. He's just not very good at it. He only manages to score 9 rows throughout the whole game. Also, he doesn't know that he can rotate the pieces. The pit or the game is 10 squares wide by 15 squares high. The pieces Herb got are shown below. Remember to remove any complete rows.

Your job is to reconstruct the full Tetris game, from beginning to end. The last piece will go over the top of the pit. Herb will succeed in dropping 9 rows. Do not rotate any pieces as they fall. The blocks remaining at the end of the game will spell out your answer.

There were multiple errata:

• It is not necessary to slide pieces after they've dropped.
• On block 52, there is an apostrophe missing: ERE'S
• IMPORTANT: The Tetris grid can be solved just fine. When you solve it, you'll get an answer. It turns out that answer describes two possible things. We want the second one.
  

Here are the pieces for the entire game, in order:

1. AR   2. BR   3. W    4. TS   5. EC   6. H    7.  E   8. KL
    TH     LO      CH      T.      IS      IT       R       IM
                    E                       L      ON

9. RE   10.   B   11. B   12.  E   13. A   14. ME   15. F
    IC      AYE       U       CTL      MA       SO      Y
                      S                 Y               D
                      I                                 N

16. L    17. LOC   18.  T   19.  E   20. Y    21.  S   22. RL
    TON       L        KP       ART      BE       WA       IS
                       N                 R        H

23.  AN   24. WE   25. HI   26. E   27. THEN   28.  R   29. IN
    IN        LL        OU      M,                 LD       FI
                                 R                 N

30.  UI   31. L   32. !   33. O   34.  TI   35. EM   36. FI
    TH        G       D       ,       OL         SC      OL
              ND      E       UP
                      B

37. L   38.  R   39. T    40.  -C   41. E   42. AL   43. RED
    TH      ND       URY      SC        EN       T       D
     N      I                           O        L

44. UA   45.  ON   46.   G  47. FF   48. L    49. ?
    MI       SQ        THE      MI       TOP      PIN

50. HE'   51. WH   52. ERES   53. X
     O         DO                 WA
                                   S