How many pieces of Tetris would it take to make a real home?

You know Tetris, that addictive life-saving boredom game in the 1990s? Yeah. Have you ever wondered how many little pieces like that would be needed to build a life-size house?

And suddenly the same blog that already calculated how much Mario's coins would be worth in our society ($ 508, 000 each coin) was curious to know how many pieces of Tetris would be needed to build a suitable house to live in. And the answer is: over 1 billion and 300 million little pieces.

Calculating

The guys were able to do this calculation after a lot of research. The first curiosity revealed is that the name Tetris is a mixture of tetromino (geometric shape formed by four orthogonally joined squares) and tennis (the sport, not the footwear). The idea of ​​the game was introduced in the 1950s, but became popular even a few decades later.

Once they found out what the Tetris piece actually was, it was now lacking to know the sizes of each piece, since as they existed only virtually, it was difficult to calculate how much they measured or weighed, for example.

They realized that the ideal would be to create a small comparison scale to start doing the math, something like the size each piece seems to be on the game screen. And then, considering smaller measurements, a piece would have dimensions smaller than 1 cm in the physical world. Who wants to try?