Board facts
- Rocks
- 28
- Rock clumps
- 10
- Open cells
- 404
- Rock-free rows
- 12
- Fruit to clear
- 10
- Start speed
- 8 cells/s
Score to beat: 932
On trail #9 the board holds corner hooks of three rocks, 28 rocks in total and 10 clumps. The pattern is the same in all four quarters; 12 rows of the board are untouched and 404 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 8 cells per second and reaches about 8.9 by the 10th fruit.
Test run
In our test run, a simple path-finding player cleared this trail in 15 seconds, scoring 932 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.