Board facts
- Rocks
- 44
- Rock clumps
- 12
- Open cells
- 388
- Rock-free rows
- 12
- Fruit to clear
- 14
- Start speed
- 14.5 cells/s
Score to beat: 4,590
Trail #61 is built from short bars of two to four rocks: 44 rocks in 12 clumps, mirrored across both middle lines of the 18 × 24 board. That leaves 388 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 14.5 cells per second and speeds up with every fruit, reaching about 16.5 cells per second by the 14th fruit that clears the stage.
Test run
In our test run, a simple path-finding player cleared this trail in 15 seconds, scoring 4,590 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.