20081219Fr = My 3rd try. My best ranks (#Lives lost with all acorns collected) so far: 0-0-1-1, 0-1-0-0, 0-1-1-0, 0-0-0-0, 1-1-0-1, "Done". My solution for 5-3: get the bottom-5 acorns from left-to-right, then hit the platform on the right & quickly sit on the 3rd tiny island. As the platform spins, it'll "pour" the 5 keys onto your head! Now get the pink key at far-left, then jump onto the spinning platform to get high enough to collect the last 6 acorns, & head to the exit. Only 3 more lives away from the next award - w00t!
P.S.: BIG THANKS to "Flying Frogs", who pointed out a detail that I'd overlooked: When standing on a "Kutie-Korpse", it slowly inches to the side! In LVL-1-3, by sitting slightly left of center, I rode it like a raft to victory!
20081219Fr = My 2nd time here. My best ranks (#Lives lost with all acorns collected) so far: 0-0-2-1, 0-1-0-0, 0-1-1-0, 0-5-0-0, 1-1-6-1, Done (You can tell that towards the end I was just trying to get thru) Obviously, still a LOT of room for improvement...
20081210We = My 1st time here.
My best ranks (#Lives lost with all acorns collected) so far:
0-0-3-1-1-2-0-0-0-1-4
(I've not yet progressed beyond this point)
I'm pretty sure I can make both the "3" & the "4" each into a "2" ... we'll see...
50 "Hard" levels completed - with all 10 "Respect" intact. Using only Peon Towers (which I never upgraded), Electric Floors, & Inverted Lightning Rods, my final score was: ... 9,239,752. I've scored above 10,000,000 before, but not without losing some "Respect"!
It was very nice of them to award badges without requiring us to have ALL our "Respect" intact - that would've made it a better challenge for the pro's. Maybe the Noob-level badges should be "Complete This Level", while the Pro-level badges could be "Complete This Level Without Losing Any Respect".
My challenge to myself was to survive "Medium" with all 20 lives intact, without juggling or selling anything. I used only "Pellet", "Squirt", "Swarm", & "Frost", & I earned between 6910 -to- 6920 points, as I recall.
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