Board facts
- Rocks
- 52
- Rock clumps
- 34
- Open cells
- 380
- Rock-free rows
- 6
- Fruit to clear
- 10
- Start speed
- 9.5 cells/s
Score to beat: 1,400
Trail #16 is built from single stones scattered in a mirror pattern: 52 rocks in 34 clumps, mirrored across both middle lines of the 18 × 24 board. That leaves 380 cells open, and 6 rows run from edge to edge without a single rock.
This is a Walls trail, so the border is solid. The snake starts at 9.5 cells per second and speeds up with every fruit, reaching about 10.4 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 17 seconds, scoring 1,400 points. It plays safe rather than fast, so a confident human can beat that time.
How to approach it
Single stones barely block anything, but they break up long straight runs. Swing wide around them so the body does not snag on a stone later.