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ARE

Tetris Wiki contributors. 2023. “ARE.” Tetris Wiki.

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Tetris Wiki, “ARE”
Original
https://tetris.wiki/index.php?title=ARE&oldid=24296
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271d855df97fd41ad396652d2a37e1004ee9a147b738e4a5ab96870b3010cf89
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250217033811/https://tetris.wiki/index.php?title=ARE&oldid=24296
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2026-10-20
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Tetris Wiki contributors (tetris.wiki); revision 24296.
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Cited by revision, briefly, as a cross-check; its license is non-commercial, so nothing is copied beyond short quotes.

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Entry delay, also called ARE, appearance delay, or spawn delay, is the time between one piece locking and the next appearing; some accounts include the extra delay after a line clear.leadleadWiki
"ARE" is not an acronym; it comes from あれ ("are", "that"), the word Japanese players used for the pause.Word originWord originWiki
The Tetris Wiki associates entry delay with Japanese games, most of them influenced by Sega's 1988 arcade Tetris.leadWiki