[net.games] Sssssnake

CSvax:dgt@pur-ee.UUCP (07/14/83)

Fake id : dgt@purdue

Real id : bxk@csnet-purdue

 Iam interested in knowing if snake is played seriously in any place.
 If so, what is the highest score in that site ?
 Here, at Purdue, it is not played seriously and the highest score
 is 1275 (not mine, sigh).
 Are most people aware of the oddities in the game (safe places..) ?

 If interested you can end mail to me at bxk@csnet-purdue or post to net.games
 By the way, is there a net.games.snake ?

                                            Bala Krishnamurthy
 p.s. I meant send mail, not end mail..  sorry.

newman@utcsrgv.UUCP (Ken Newman) (07/16/83)

Snake used to be played at our site - I have the top score
obtained by the standard method, i.e. playing the game
in the normal interactive manner at one sitting - 1932.
However, a couple of people here developed clever ways
to partially automate the snake-playing process by using
a program to aid in finding move sequences, and our top
score by this technique is a disgusting 3888!?! Apparently
at this level the snake makes almost no errors.