Board facts
- Rocks
- 48
- Rock clumps
- 8
- Open cells
- 384
- Rock-free rows
- 12
- Fruit to clear
- 14
- Start speed
- 16.9 cells/s
Score to beat: 7,560
On trail #72 the board holds square blocks of four rocks, 48 rocks in total and 8 clumps. The pattern is the same in all four quarters; 12 rows of the board are untouched and 384 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 16.9 cells per second and reaches about 18.9 by the 14th fruit.
Test run
In our test run, a simple path-finding player cleared this trail in 11 seconds, scoring 7,560 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.