Here are some responses to various comments, if anybody cares: I'm NOT proposing a Snood board.Interesting to read the follow ups here, although many of you are pretty harsh :-). Sorry, I had to get that out of my system. There is the slight matter of score - I'm not sure what strategy will cause your score to be highest, but until I can beat the higher levels consistantly, I don't care about score. dropping snoods) come in to play at the harder levels, where a straight Araknoid 'clear the screen' strategy won't work - you have to make some snood drops, or you will run out of playing field. These competing elements (dropping field vs. Of course, just like Tetris, that long skinny peice comes just after you've given up on it. Thus, there is a timing component to drops - perform a drop when the bar is full, and you get full reward, or zero reward if the danger bar just reset. If the danger bar is empty, there is no extra reward for a drop - the danger bar simply stays at empty.

If the danger bar is close to the top, the reward is huge, delaying the playing field drop for several turns. However, the reward for droping is asymetrical. This is similar to saving that one column in Tetris for the long skinny peice. Thus, one strategy is to create skinny stalagmites, that can cause a huge drop when the key snoods are eliminated. If enough are dropped (or the danger bar is low enough), it can clear completely. If a drop occurs, the danger bar goes down, not up. If that elimination leaves snoods hanging in midair, they drop. When your shot creates a group of three or more snoods, those snoods are eliminated. However, this goal competes with the dropping snood goal. Much like Tetris, one strategy is to keep the playing field as level as possible, so that a skinny tower (stalagmite?) doesn't eliminate you. Thus, one strategy component is shot selection. A low line of snoods on a side eliminates bank shots, while a long line in the middle leaves you nothing but bank shots. The game is over if, after a drop, a snood is below the lowest line. When it reaches the top, the whole playing field will drop by one space. The danger bar grows with each snood fired. However, the simple skill is complicated by the danger bar and the interaction with falling snoods. You aim the gun correctly (skill), connect three snoods, they are eliminated, repeat. At first glance, Snood is only a game of skill.

Snood computer game