[qsort]

I'd suggest that life is neither Chess nor Tetris, it's Magic the Gathering:

- You have to learn to relentlessly blame yourself for the mistakes you make, but also to accept that you can't change everything, and sometimes you WILL lose to random luck, no matter what you do.

- Actually understanding probability goes a long way.

- Regrettably, a large chunk of the game depends on your initial hand.

[dec0dedab0de]

... and sometimes your opponent can just afford a better deck than you.

[jerrre]

This is perhaps why Magic the Gathering is a better metaphore for life than Poker, which also has the elements above, but not this one.

Although with poker you have the house that always wins...

[YeGoblynQueenne]

- Wizzards of the coast will take all your lunch money.

No, wait.

But actually true.

[I-M-S]

Which is probably why my favourite card game is now Dominion - everybody has the exact same starting position and access to resources. Too bad it doesn't extrapolate to the life analogy.