Board facts
- Rocks
- 28
- Rock clumps
- 8
- Open cells
- 404
- Rock-free rows
- 14
- Fruit to clear
- 10
- Start speed
- 7 cells/s
Score to beat: 400
Trail #1 is built from short bars of two to four rocks: 28 rocks in 8 clumps, mirrored across both middle lines of the 18 × 24 board. That leaves 404 cells open, and 14 rows run from edge to edge without a single rock.
This is a Walls trail, so the border is solid. The snake starts at 7 cells per second and speeds up with every fruit, reaching about 7.9 cells per second by the 10th fruit that clears the stage.
Test run
In our test run, a simple path-finding player cleared this trail in 23 seconds, scoring 400 points. It plays safe rather than fast, so a confident human can beat that time.
How to approach it
Short bars make narrow lanes. Travel along the bars rather than across them, and the snake will rarely need more than one turn to get past.