Board facts
- Rocks
- 32
- Rock clumps
- 6
- Open cells
- 400
- Rock-free rows
- 14
- Fruit to clear
- 10
- Start speed
- 9.5 cells/s
Score to beat: 1,400
On trail #18 the board holds square blocks of four rocks, 32 rocks in total and 6 clumps. The pattern is the same in all four quarters; 14 rows of the board are untouched and 400 cells stay open.
This is a No walls trail: leave the board on one side and you come back on the other, so the border is a shortcut rather than a danger. The snake starts at 9.5 cells per second and reaches about 10.4 by the 10th fruit.
Test run
In our test run, a simple path-finding player cleared this trail in 13 seconds, scoring 1,400 points. It plays safe rather than fast, so a confident human can beat that time.
How to approach it
The square blocks leave wide corridors between them. Treat each block like a roundabout: circle it on the outside lane and keep the inside clear for the tail.