Sudden Death

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Sudden Death options

The available options for Sudden Death are:

• Round ends (no winner declared)
• Worm health reduced to a single point on all worms
• Nuclear bomb (worms are poisoned, but unlike the Nuclear Bomb weapon, no flooding occurs)
• No energy is lost

An additional option, independent of those above, controls the speed at which the water rises at Sudden Death (see flooding speed section below)

Timing of Sudden Death

• Sudden Death always occurs between turns, never during a turn.
• Sudden Death never occurs before the Sudden Death clock runs to zero.
• Sudden Death will not always occur immediately after the turn during which the clock runs to zero. Rather, the precise timing of Sudden Death is determined randomly, and will occur after one of the turns shortly afterwards. (elaboration needed)

Flooding speed

Using an external scheme editor, the byte value which controls the speed of flooding at sudden death can be changed to values other than 0, 1, 2, or 3. The following table shows the available flooding speeds and their corresponding byte values.

Byte value	Flooding speed (pixels per turn)
0	0
1	5
19	13
2	20
55	21
43	29
47	37
3	45
26	52
25	53
27	61
8	64
33	69
13	77
4	80
18	84
23	85
11	93
15	101
29	109
22	116
57	117
5	125
63	133
45	141
30	148
9	149
21	157
17	165
61	173
6	180
39	181
37	189
31	197
51	205
12	208
14	212
41	213
53	221
49	229
35	237
10	244
7	245
59	253