Tetris Blitz helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus: Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

This game is constantly moving. While the player is deciding which piece to choose, the piece is falling down towards the rows below. This means that if the player isn’t using their focus skills, they might not get to actually choose where the piece goes. They need to initiate the task of choosing a space and orientation for the piece as soon as they pop up. Then they must ignore internal and external distractions and keep shifting their attention between the ghosts, the piece, and the timer. If they do not use all of these focus skills, they will not get a high score, which can lead to them failing challenges or not moving up on the leaderboard.

Time Management: Being efficient and aware of our use of time and effort.

Since Tetris has both a timer and moving pieces, the player will get to practice their time management skills every time they play. The falling pieces mean they have to practice keeping pace. If they don’t pay attention to how fast a piece is following and choose a piece before it reaches the bottom, then they will not be able to clear lines and earn points. They also have a deadline to meet (which is represented by the timer). They want to reach as many points as possible before time runs out. In things like the daily challenge they even have to clear a specific number of lines to win.