Snow Wars

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

1. This is your castle; one of the two objects that take up four spaces.
2. This is your catapult. If it gets hit all three times, you will still be able to fire snowballs.
3. This is a blank space.
4. This is a snowman. Snowmen are the hardest to find because they take up only one square.
5. This is another one of those hard to find snowmen.
6. 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

1. 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.
2. This is an object that you completely destroyed.
3. This is an object that you have partially destroyed.
4. This is another object that you have completely destroyed.
5. This is a partially destroyed object.
6. This is scenery. This has no effect on the game.
7. 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

Opponent: The Scarf

Reward: Two Wet Snowballs

Level 2

Opponent: The Snowman

Reward: Two Poison Snowballs, Runner-Up Medal

Level 3

Opponent: Santa

Reward: Two Evil Snowballs

Level 4

Opponent: The Snow Cone

Reward: Two Yellow Snowballs

Level 5

Opponent: Happy Monkey

Reward: Two Peach Snowballs, Bronze Trophy

Level 6

Opponent: Evil Elf

Reward: Two Exploding Snowballs

Level 7

Opponent: Roboball

Reward: Two Icy Snowballs, Silver Trophy

Level 8

Opponent: The Tree

Reward: Two Sticky Snowballs

Level 9

Opponent: Super Star

Reward: Two Snow Mudballs

Level 10

Opponent: The Tentar

Reward: Two Stone Snowballs, Gold Trophy

Game Info