Board facts
- Rocks
- 32
- Rock clumps
- 8
- Open cells
- 400
- Rock-free rows
- 12
- Fruit to clear
- 10
- Start speed
- 7.5 cells/s
Score to beat: 600
Trail #4 is built from corner hooks of three rocks: 32 rocks in 8 clumps, mirrored across both middle lines of the 18 × 24 board. That leaves 400 cells open, and 12 rows run from edge to edge without a single rock.
This is a Walls trail, so the border is solid. The snake starts at 7.5 cells per second and speeds up with every fruit, reaching about 8.4 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 19 seconds, scoring 600 points. It plays safe rather than fast, so a confident human can beat that time.
How to approach it
Corner hooks are the trap here: a fruit inside the crook of a hook needs a planned exit. Enter along the open side and turn out immediately.