Alexey Pazhitnov
publication date: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 (part of Round XXVII)
category: Games
clue: Keep turning this goo around in your head and eventually the right answer will fall into place.
explanation: Pazhitnov was the inventor of Tetris, a video game in which the player rotates falling blocks to arrange them for a high score. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Denise Sawicki, Amy Austin, Mike Eberhart, Aaron Shurtleff, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Scott Horowitz, Megan Baxter, Lori Lancaster, Chris McKinnon, Michael Paul Cote, Todd Brotsch, Josh Paddison, Amir H. Sufyani, and Dan Ecker
trivia: The gooed image was distorted to look like the classic Tetris shapes falling onto a stack at the bottom.
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