Snow Wars is a non-Flash game in which you fire snowballs at your opponent's objects on their side of the field. The catch is, you cannot see where they are, so you will have to guess. But there are some strategies out there that can make Snow Wars an easy game. If you haven't noticed yet, Snow Wars is very similar to Battleship. Each game costs 100 NP to play, and the prizes aren't really worth it...but you get a trophy!
Items
Small snowmen: Only take up one space each, and so are the hardest to find.
Catapult: Always takes up three spaces horizontally.
Snowballs & Cannon: Always take up two spaces each vertically.
Castle & Big Snowman: Take up a 2x2 square, and so are the easiest to find.
Interface
Your Play Area
Your play area
- This is your castle; one of the two objects that take up four spaces.
- This is your catapult. If it gets hit all three times, you will still be able to fire snowballs.
- This is a blank space.
- This is a snowman. Snowmen are the hardest to find because they take up only one square.
- This is another one of those hard to find snowmen.
- This is your large snowman. This is another object that takes up four spaces.
- The black dots are just part of the scenery, as are the puddles.
- Even if your catapult or piles of snowballs get hit, you will still be able to fire.
Your Opponent's Play Area
Your opponent's play area
- These "Question Marks" are the locations on your opponent's map that you have not yet thrown a snowball at. Once you click it, you will throw a snowball at that location. Next turn, the question mark will not be there, instead, whatever was underneath it will be.
- This is an object that you completely destroyed.
- This is an object that you have partially destroyed.
- This is another object that you have completely destroyed.
- This is a partially destroyed object.
- This is scenery. This has no effect on the game.
- This states who your opponent is, and what level of the game you are currently on.
Strategy
Click all squares in a diagonal pattern (red or green in the picture below). Then simply click on the other parts of your opponent's items. If you clicked all green the first time, then click all the red squares, or vice versa. The small snowmen are a bit different. Since they only take up one square, you will have to manually find them.
Another tip: you can click multiple question marks at once to speed up the game. Just beware that your opponent will be making moves just as fast.
A game that would appear to end in a tie, where each you and your opponent get the last needed spot with a Hit on the final move, will result in a loss for the player with the computer winning. You will not proceed to the next opponent from this result.
Opponents and Rewards
There are 10 levels in Snow Wars, each with a different opponent and reward. Besides these, each level is the same; the game does not even get any harder on later levels.
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
Level 7
Level 8
Level 9
Level 10
Opponent Phrases
Whenever you win a level, your opponent will say one of these phrases:
Argh!! I have been defeated!
But, how can I lose? I am invincible!
Its all over :(
Next time Ill bring my lucky snowballs...
Waahhhhh... mummy
You beat me! You beat me!
You played well, but I deserved to win!
Whenever you lose a level, your opponent will say one of these phrases:
Call yourself a Snow Warrior?
Ha! I win! You were AWFUL!
I knew from the start that I would win!
I smirk in your general direction!!!
Ive seen ants throw snowballs better!
Oh no... im so scared... heh heh
Pah! Is that the best you can do?
That was pathetic!
Victory is mine!!
You hardly scratched me!
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