Board facts
- Rocks
- 40
- Rock clumps
- 8
- Open cells
- 392
- Rock-free rows
- 12
- Fruit to clear
- 12
- Start speed
- 11.1 cells/s
Score to beat: 2,200
On trail #36 the board holds square blocks of four rocks, 40 rocks in total and 8 clumps. The pattern is the same in all four quarters; 12 rows of the board are untouched and 392 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 11.1 cells per second and reaches about 12.4 by the 12th fruit.
Test run
In our test run, a simple path-finding player cleared this trail in 12 seconds, scoring 2,200 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.