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Do you enjoy playing the classic game Tetris? Did you know that it is already on your Mac, and that you can play it right now?<\/p>\n

You do have to feel comfortable using the Terminal application (found in Application\/Utilities\/Terminal.app) and typing a few simple commands. But if you follow these very easy instructions, you can play Tetris!<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong>\u00a0Launch The Terminal.app
\n\"Screen
\n2)<\/strong>\u00a0Type in emacs and press the enter key
\n\"tetris1\"3)<\/strong>\u00a0Within emacs, hold down the Esc key and press the X key\"tetris2\"4)<\/strong>\u00a0Type tetris and press enter\"tetirs3\"5)<\/strong> Use the arrow keys to move the pieces!\"tetris4\"You can also play a game called snake! Just type “snake” instead of “tetris” at step #4!<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you enjoy playing the classic game Tetris? Did you know that it is already on your Mac, and that you can play it right now? You do have to feel comfortable using the Terminal application (found in Application\/Utilities\/Terminal.app) and typing a few simple commands. But if you follow these very easy instructions, you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":26129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"class_list":["post-26111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"yoast_head":"\nFree Tetris on your Mac<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you enjoy playing the classic game Tetris? 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