DIG DUG · CHALLENGE OF 2026-10-02

HOW THE DAY WENT

Friday, October 2 brought DIG DUG, at level 4, and 8 people played.

FERXO17 won by a street with 253,150 points, 236,610 more than ADRIAN in second. ELI rounds out the podium with 15,290.

Among the top 8, the average was 39,404 points.

THE SCREEN

It started on screen 2 of the 2 that DIG DUG has; clearing it leads on to the rest, in an order that depends on the day. It was played at level 4, with the same seed for everyone: the same enemies and the same pieces in the same order.

THE MUSIC

Danza húngara n.º 5, Johannes Brahms, 1869.

The most famous of the 21 dances Brahms arranged on what he took to be Hungarian folk tunes; this one was actually by another composer, Béla Kéler.

It is in the public domain, transcribed to chiptune with square and triangle waves, the way it would sound on an Atari 2600.

ABOUT TODAY'S GAME

You dig tunnels through the dirt while red Pookas and green Fygars chase you through them (and sometimes ghost through the dirt). FIRE pumps whatever is right in front of you: four pumps and it bursts.

Rocks fall when you dig underneath and crush whatever they catch, you included.

· A rock is worth 1000, more than two Fygars at the surface. Dig a tunnel under a rock, let the enemies follow you through it and step aside: the most profitable play in the game.

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