Tetris Codexery

Lock Delay

The short pause before a landed piece locks in place.

Lock delay is a mechanic that Arika's Tetris: The Grand Master series relies on heavily, following Sega's Japanese arcade version of Tetris, whose rotation system and tetromino colors the series also borrows.

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