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As a side note this is one of those things that several tetris-clones deal have to deal with, long runs are probable but can frustrate a player so a lot of the times you want to to extra logic to keep it from being actually random.

A uniform "deck" a couple times larger than the number of pieces is the usual suggestion prevents large runs and makes sure that you see every piece more regularly.

Marginally related --

on the other hand, here's "Evil Tetris": http://qntm.org/hatetris

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