Tetris Shower
The downstairs shower, retiled in 2009 as a game of Tetris in progress: every piece whole, no row complete, and one piece still falling.
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The Tetris Shower is the downstairs bathroom shower in Jamie’s house, retiled in 2009 as a game in progress. After twenty years the house had settled enough to crack the old tile. His post says a friend helping Tammy with the design drew up a Tetris concept, and “I loved it right away!”
The rules were his part. “It was critical to me that the tile pattern be correct.” Every piece had to be whole, and no row could be complete, because the game would have removed it. To get boards like that, he played several games of Quinn, a tetromino game for the Mac, and captured the screens. He had to learn to play “specifically to not complete rows.”
Terry Owens of Como Lake Carpentry laid the tile. The top rows are empty because the game is still going, and a single piece is on its way down.
It is archived because it is finished. Eleven years later, Jamie wrote that it “is still one of my favorite home projects we’ve done.”
The record #
- Status
- Archived Finished. It came to a natural conclusion and is kept as it is.
- Lifespan
- Across the years from 2003 to 2026. Each dot is an event in its history.
- Topics
- Making
Artifacts #
Files from the project itself, kept as they were.
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The whole room #
The shower from the doorway, with the yellow walls and the rubber ducks.
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A piece falling #
The top rows are empty because the game is still going, and one piece is on its way down. The dark spot on the yellow wall is the dust speck on Jamie’s camera sensor, which his post points out.
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The tub wall #
The stack from the tub to the shower head, with a gap in every row.
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Close up #
The whole pieces up close, in the shower’s six colors and white.
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The corner #
Where the two walls meet the tub, and the pieces carry on around the corner.
Sources and evidence #
Checked every day from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status. That is Jamie’s call.
Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.
History #
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launch
The Tetris Shower
Jamie shows the retiled downstairs shower, a game in progress with every piece whole and no row complete. Source