Word: jigsaw
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...premise is simple: as variously shaped groups of four blocks fall down the screen (trivia answer: they're called "tetrominoes"), a player must fit them together like a jigsaw. When a horizontal line is completed, it disappears, freeing up more space to play the game. Once the stacked blocks reach the top of the screen you're toast. But there's something about the formula that sets a hook deep in our psyche; players have even reported seeing the falling blocks in their sleep. "I believe there is some basic psychological pleasure sensor that Tetris has found that other [games...
...neither the place of University President Drew G. Faust nor the institution of Harvard to pompously welcome seniors “into the company of educated men and women” on Commencement Day, as if a mortarboard is somehow the last missing piece of the finite jigsaw of one’s “education.” The University no longer even has the chutzpah to define confidently what an “educated” person is. Gen Ed, then, is just one in a series of institutional attempts to deal with the long-term decline...
When I can, I try to swim. I like to do jigsaw puzzles. Maybe on a Sunday morning sleep late and read a book. Not much time for too much of that...
...process] is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together,” Shen said. “This [meeting] is the box of the jigsaw puzzle—we want to make sure the puzzle is going in the right direction...
...credits. But Wolf—who said that she is anxious about funding for essential services like education and healthcare—said that she viewed this method of funding as “fragmented.” “It’s like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, but we don’t know what the end looks like,” Wolf said. In December, Patrick established 10 task forces to prepare Massachusetts for the receipt of stimulus funding from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Signed into law in February, the bill...