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Catherine cover artvsThe New Tetris cover art

CatherinevsThe New Tetris

Catherine leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The New Tetris leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
CatherineThe New Tetris

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

The New Tetris leans harder on execution: Fast precise placement under speed is the lead axis

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

Catherine leans harder on optimization: Block-technique vocabulary solves each tower

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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The New Tetris