Cuyo is a Tetris on the Nintendo Game Boy Tetris is a computer game invented by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985, while he was working for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, inspired by a pentominoes game he had purchased earlier. ...Tetris_style A puzzle is a problem or enigma presented as entertainment; that is written down, acted out, etc. ...puzzle game for up to two players. The player controls falling blocks of various types which change with each level. For example, in the first level, the player has to connect differently colored cartoon faces to each other. When enough blocks of the same type are connected, they explode. Usually the level goal is to destroy a certain number of special blocks at the bottom of the screen; these special blocks explode when blocks adjacent to them explode (in some levels, only when this is accomplished through a A Chain reaction is any process which is self catalyzing, meaning that the process creates the conditions for its own continuation. ...chain reaction).

Some of the more complex levels have

• changing blocks (e.g., darkening over time, changing into a different state, only revealing their type occasionally)
• changing environments (e.g., very quickly falling blocks)
• different block connection requirements (e.g. blocks can only connect diagonally)

The player loses when the blocks reach the upper border of the level. This upper border is slowly lowered like a "curtain" (with a velocity depending on the level), forcing the player to reach the goal with some time.

The game graphics and animations, while simple, are part of the player's In psychology, motivation is the driving force (desire) behind all actions of an organism. ...motivation, since they change with each level. The constantly changing requirements make Cuyo different from Tetris, where the main variation over time is speed and scoring.

Cuyo is Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...open source software under the GPL redirects here. ...GNU General Public License, with binaries available for This article is about Linux_based operating systems, GNU/Linux, and related topics. ...Linux and Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. ...Windows. The game texts are English.

Not to be confused with Cujo is a 1981 novel by Stephen King. ...Cujo, a book by This page is about Stephen Edwin King, the writer. ...Stephen King

External link

• Official Cuyo homepage (http://www.karimmi.de/cuyo/) (German)
• Peters Cuyo homepage (http://www.mathematik.uni_tuebingen.de/~peter/cuyo/) (German, additional levels)