Board facts
- Rocks
- 44
- Rock clumps
- 6
- Open cells
- 388
- Rock-free rows
- 8
- Fruit to clear
- 12
- Start speed
- 12.4 cells/s
Score to beat: 3,402
On trail #42 the board holds short bars of two to four rocks, 44 rocks in total and 6 clumps. The pattern is the same in all four quarters; 8 rows of the board are untouched and 388 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 12.4 cells per second and reaches about 13.7 by the 12th fruit.
Test run
In our test run, a simple path-finding player cleared this trail in 12 seconds, scoring 3,402 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.