TetrisBench
Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus
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HN · launched Jan 26, 2026 · 111 upvotes (top 9%) · 0 views
Niche: llm benchmarking tools · 84 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The project is a benchmarking harness and static web dashboard that feeds Tetris state to various LLM APIs and records win/loss ratios.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Stockfish (chess engine), Reinforcement learning with genetic algorithms, OpenCV with algorithmic parsing, Hatetris (adversarial piece selection variant)
Concerns raised: Token economics and context accumulation costs grow expensive quickly, LLM latency too slow for real-time Tetris gameplay (seconds vs milliseconds), Over-optimizes short-term line clears at expense of long-term stability, Not a meaningful benchmark for LLM capabilities, Tetris Holdings aggressive trademark enforcement
Feature requests: Email optional/not required to play, Support for more randomizer variants (7-bag, custom randomizers)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 75 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 76 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 48 days after the earliest competitor.
- Redactle LLM Leaderboard · hn · 2026-09-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- tetris · github · 2026-09-28 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- I made a hockey web game with Opus 5.5, and Gemini Argon optimized it · hn · 2026-10-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- GEMINI-JAILBREAK · github · 2026-11-01 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- jev-column-race · github · 2026-09-17 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Fly By · hn · 2026-09-01 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- gemini-4-demo-vanilla-3D · github · 2026-10-12 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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