+therealbountybob Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 Welcome whippersnappers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 1 hour ago, McKong said: Hello my name is Royce, I'm 4, and I played some more on 'the snake that gets all the dots' game today and scored 3490, with a little bit of help from my Daddy 2 hours ago, Alicja - Caco's daughter said: Hi. My name is Alicja. I'm 6 years old My first try - 1580 23 minutes ago, therealbountybob said: Welcome whippersnappers I think we're seeing "High Score Club - The Next Generation" beginning now. In 20-30 years, when our arthritis gets too bad to hold a controller, these kids will pick up the torch and carry on... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Wave 11. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 (edited) Wave 11 59,200 Seriously with some of the scores on here and the speed of this thing, some of you are robots for sure ? Edit - Just realised that my first posted score was higher than this. Way LONG day today ... Edited January 20, 2021 by spookt Stupidity 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Nibbler: 193,640 (level 18 or 19, I think) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 12 hours ago, graywest said: I think we're seeing "High Score Club - The Next Generation" beginning now. In 20-30 years, when our arthritis gets too bad to hold a controller, these kids will pick up the torch and carry on... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 I suppose one should be glad as long as your scores are better than what a 5 year old manages, though I have a feeling an agile 10 year old would get close to challenging me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 Great Photo McKong 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 128,180 - finally beaten 100K! Woop! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Wave 12 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 If you need some inspiration to get those high scores, "Man vs. Snake" (a documentary about the world's best Nibbler players) is available on YouTube (legitimately) for free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gf-DQxy-dg 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 (edited) Nibbler: 258,270 (wave 22) I'm beginning to learn the art of "strategic stopping". I used to try to complete every wave in one movement: finding the best path and memorizing it. But that begins to become impossible at higher speeds - if I miss one turn, it throws off the whole pattern and then I die. Finding good places to stop and plan my next move seems to work better for me. As far as I can tell, Nibbler's movement works like this: If Nibbler can move straight ahead in the direction that he is facing, he will. Nibbler won't make turns unless the joystick is pressed. If Nibbler runs into a wall and has only one way to turn, he will do so and keep moving. No joystick movement is necessary. If Nibbler runs into a wall but has TWO options, he will STOP and remain still until the joystick is moved. Basically, you can stop at a T-intersection. Just be careful not to sit still for too long... if you wait more than a few seconds without eating a dot, the counter begins to decrease VERY rapidly until it runs out or you eat another dot. For those of you who have gotten to higher levels: does the speed/difficulty ever plateau? Do the levels/dot patterns start to repeat? Edited January 22, 2021 by graywest 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 3 hours ago, graywest said: ... For those of you who have gotten to higher levels: does the speed/difficulty ever plateau? Do the levels/dot patterns start to repeat? The speed continues and then lapses back and builds up again, I suspect it's a register that wraps round back to 0 after gettting to 255 etc as they never thought anyone would get that far, but it could be deliberate as you do get used to the speed (well I did when I was good and had a good stick last time we played!). There are a few "nibbler warp speed effects" and I think the dot paterns are the main variation so yes the levels do repeat. I'm stuck in the 400K zone at the moment but am re-learing the screens so by the end of the round I hope to get further 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caco Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 144210 - W-17 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 Welcome again to the new players, the old players and especially the very young players Here is the first table of the season and yes I'm top, but my scores are getting much lower by the day so with over another week of play there's plenty of time to improve. Typically scoring is 12pts for top down to 2pts for 11th and 12th, with extra scoring places for each player from 9pts downwards, it looks something like this: NIBBLER 1st therealbountybob (p) 510,210 12pts 2nd McKong (p) 403,100 11pts 3rd graywest (n) 258,270 10pts 4th Deteacher (n) 213,600 9pts 5th Cebus Capucinis 172,930 9pts 6th Caco 144,210 9pts 7th spookt 128,180 8pts 8th 8BIT 1337 119,150 8pts 9th Gury 110,820 8pts 10th 8bitguy1 72,880 7pts 11th Preppie 70,280 7pts 12th Sikor 62,810 6pts 13th Sleepy 60,230 6pts 14th thank you 55,610 5pts 15th carlsson 50,480 5pts 16th chevymad 48,290 4pts 17th skr 48,000 4pts 18th jblenkle 43,780 3pts 19th RedThunder 40,090 3pts 20th NIKON 25,550 2pts 21st Alicja (Caco Jr) 1,580 2pts 22nd Royce (McKong Jr) 1,520 2pts The (p) is PAL and (n) is NTSC just to give a guide, I suspect the game is much faster on NTSC and much more difficult! If I've missed anyone (regulars will not be surprised) just post to say! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT ANY SCORES POSTED ALREADY AS I WILL NOT SEE THEM!! PLENTY OF TIME TO JOIN IN EVERYONE 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pusakat Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 56,300. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Nibbler - 59,790 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Oh man! I gotta get back in this one! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 (edited) A little improvement: Sleepy 74450 (P) Edited January 23, 2021 by Sleepy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Update: Sleepy: 118240 (P) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 62150 pts (wave 11, I had 1 dot left but the snake didn't want to move in the same direction as I wanted) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8guy Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 I couldnt break 100k. When does the round end?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, 8bitguy1 said: When does the round end? On 1/14/2021 at 8:03 PM, therealbountybob said: Round ends Sunday 31st Jan 10am UK time, Thus we have a little over one more week to play this game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 74140 pts, wave 12. I believe I'm very close to my max capacity. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 514890 Wave 31 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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