I don't call them anything.

Bloques

Blocks

BRICKS!!!!

Falling Tetris Blocks, or depending on how long you've been playing, Falling Tetris Fuckers

yeah, blocks, they've pretty much always been known as tetris blocks. I've never even heard of people trying to call them anything besides that.

bloques, L, s, I, cuadro (square), z.

BLOCKS

Blocks or Tetristicles

They were called Tetrads in the original Tetris manual for Game Boy and the NES.

They were also called tetrads in a random zing in the NES game Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics 2, as can be seen here:





At some point the switch was made from "Tetrads" to "Tetriminoes" and they are called Tetriminoes in Tetris DS. I'm not sure when the switch was made, but I remember seeing "Tetriminoes" in the manual for Tetris DS and wondering what the hell happened.

Also, a quick look at Wikipedia tells me that "tetrominoes" is the original word which comes from the Greek "tetra" and "domino" but that the Tetris Company spells it with an I instead of an O.


Apparently I'm the only one using either term because I'm the only person here who gives a shit about Tetris vocabulary. I'm ashamed of all of you.

That a bad language warning LOL jk

I call them nothing but if i thought about it Tetrads sounds right or maybe tetra for singular or tetri for plural.

Hahaha, okay I read some more at Wikipedia, and it turns out Pajitnov originally named the game "Tetris" by combining the Greek prefix "tetra" with "tennis."