Chomp (Mind Loft)

About Chomp (Mind Loft)

Chomp plays like a slow, careful snake. You move one square at a time with the arrow keys or the on-screen pad, and nothing moves until you do. Your body never shrinks, so the trail you lay is a wall for the rest of the run. A mascot whose turn has not come yet is solid, so you cannot pass through it to reach a later one, and a few fixed bleachers block squares too.

The bulldog always goes first and the rest of the order changes daily. Each board has exactly one route that eats the whole cast, and that route covers every square, so there is no spare room. Mind Loft's advice is to work backwards from the last mascot and ask at each junction which way can still get back for the far corner, not which way is quickest. Steering into a wall is refused and costs nothing.

You do not need to finish to score: the score is how far down the cast you got, with the full cast worth a perfect 10, and ties break on fewest moves, then time. Only your first result counts on the leaderboard; Give up records the run and Try again re-deals the same board for practice. The cast shrinks through the week, from ten mascots on Monday to eight on Saturday, and Sunday uses a bigger 8x8 board.

How to play Chomp (Mind Loft)

1. Open Chomp and press Start.
2. Move one square at a time with the arrow keys or the pad, starting toward the bulldog.
3. Eat the mascots in the order shown; squares you have visited and mascots not yet due are walls.
4. Keep going until the whole cast is eaten or you are boxed in; your score is how many you ate.

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Tips

• Plan backwards from the last mascot, since the one route has to use every square.
• Avoid leaving single squares cut off along the edges; you will never get back to them.
• When a move looks obviously right, check it: the tempting shortcut is often what walls off a later mascot.

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