SNAKE · CHALLENGE OF 2026-10-09

HOW THE DAY WENT

Friday, October 9 brought SNAKE, at level 5, and 6 people played.

FERXO17 won by a street with 55 points, 35 more than POLINOMIOS in second. ADRIAN rounds out the podium with 20.

Among the top 6, the average was 18 points, and 2 finished on zero.

THE SCREEN

It used map 2 of the 8 that SNAKE has. It was played at level 5, with the same seed for everyone: the same enemies and the same pieces in the same order.

THE MUSIC

Minueto en Sol mayor, BWV Anh. 114 (Cuaderno de Anna Magdalena Bach), Christian Petzold, c. 1725.

For two centuries it was thought to be Bach's, since it sits in the notebook he prepared for his wife. In the 1970s it turned out to be by Christian Petzold.

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

The snake runs on a 16x17 board of large cells (10 px, sized for a thumb on a phone). Every fruit makes it longer, and every four fruits it moves one tick faster: it starts at one cell every 8 ticks and can reach one every 3.

You die hitting a wall, the edge or yourself. The day's map decides the extra walls, so the same Snake plays differently on Monday and on Thursday.

· Going fast is not only riskier, it pays more. At top speed a fruit is worth 35 instead of 10, so surviving long with few fruits scores worse than eating often.

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