Hi guest ! Welcome to my Turmac Roll guide!
I hope it'll help you improve your highscore, since -with a little practice- you can easily get your 3k per day and it's a pretty good game for the world challenge!
And if you're lucky you may get one of these shiny trophies!

Ok...here we go:

HERE is the link to the game!

Basics

In this game you steer the little, rolling Turmac. Use the right arrow key to speed up, the left arrow key to slow down and the up arrow key to jump. Jumping on time and accurately is your life assurance here, because if you hit one of these companions

your game is over! The obstacles appear in fixed combinations (see below), but they pop up randomly one after another.
The game can be played in three different difficulties: easy, medium and hard. Depending on the difficulty you choose you'll earn the points. If you play in the easiest mode you'll get 1 point for every 5 rotations little Turmac does. In addition to that there are of course the berries!! Collect as many of them as possible. Some of them make your score increase rapidly :D! Here's a picture of the berries and the points you get from them in the easiest mode:

If you play in the medium mode, you'll get twice the amount of points, in the hard one three times as much as in the easy game, what means you'll get 600 points for only one aquaberry!

You can play this game endlessly if the Turmac doesn't crash into a tree or a spike. Since there is no goal in this game (except staying alive...*haha*) there's also no scoring limit or perfect score. But after reaching the 3000 points, you'll enter something like the second level of the game, because the obstacles appear faster after another, there will be hardly any empty spaces between them! This can really get you into trouble, especially if you come out of a combination (and into the next one) when you're jumping. Try to avoid this.

Tips and Screenshots

1. Do always play in the hard mode! You'll just earn A LOT more points from it! (alone the 600 for the aquaberry should be enough conviction ;)), besides that do the same difficult obstacle combinations also pop up in the easier modes, even if they're less frequent there.

2. Do always play in full speed, even if i seems to be too fast sometimes! If you slow down Turmac will not jump high enough to get over all the obstacles, like the big tree trunk. Sure you can slow down to collect a good berry, which you would miss otherwise, but immediately speed up again, because you don't know which obstacle is next!

3. This might sound stupid, but practice is very important, especially in this game. There are 14 different obstacle combinations (see below), which appear randomly, but a combination never changes itself. This fact finally makes the game pretty easy, because once you know the combinations by heart, if you see the first hill etc. of a combination you can already think of what comes up next! No rude surprise = no game over ;)

4. There shouldn't be many other programs running on your computer while playing.Try to shut down as many as possible of them and close or minimize your browser window in the background, because both have an effect of the flow of the game. There's barely something more annoying than crashing into a tree, even though you jumped, but the game doesn't react fast enough. In addition to that you can downgrade the quality of the game, which is another method to avoid the hanging of the game.

5. ok...so here are the different obstacle combinations. The pictures below are composed of several screenshots i took. The red points mark the point where you should jump off! :D Like I said, there are 14 of them, which are ALWAYS the same, but appear randomly. So it can definitely happen that the same combination occurs 5 times in a row.

Obstacle 1

Ok...that is not very hard. Just jump off there where I set the red point and you should get over the spike in any case. Sometimes you have to slow down a little to get the berry, but you'll see early enough if the berry is worth your while.

Obstacle 2

Try to jump off the hill as late as possible (red point :) ), because that'll give you some extra speed and your over the tree with one leap and collected the berry in doing so.Sometimes if you're unlucky with your jump the Turmac will bounce off the edge of the tree. That's no problem if your score is under 3000, because there's a lot of free space after the tree, but if you're above the 3000 it is possible that you crash directly into a tree of the next obstacle combination...

Obstacle 3

ok, first leap up on the first tree (it'll need some practice until you figure out where exactly the jumping-off point is, but don't worry, it won't take that long ). Try to jump off this tree as late as possible, so you jump over the next one and collect the two berries. Unfortunately this doesn't work always, what can be very annoying if there's a good berry hiding behind the tree. Apart from this here's also the same danger of bouncing off the last tree, as in the obstacle mentioned before.

Update:
Thanks to alianne_ for sending me a neomail with that hint (I tried it and it works almost every time):
I used to use the way you describe in the guide, but I found that I died once in a while from waiting too long to jump and rolling into the second tree, plus it was very frustrating when i missed the aquaberry on the other side because I didn't time it perfectly. Now I jump on the first tree stump and jump again without worrying about the jump off point. Then I slow down right before turmac hits the top of the second stump and hold it until he falls off the edge of the stump into the berries, before speeding up again. I found that this really reduces the bounce off the second stump and I never miss the two berries behind it.

Obstacle 4

Easy! Jump off the little ramp and you'll land after the spike. The berry is not that easy to collect...i usually jump over it :(. If you fall into the sludge that doesn't matter at all, it's just kind of decoration here ;)

Obstacle 5

Jump off the hill and you'll land in the sludge after the tree. But mind the spike! It'll spear you, if you don't jump again, immediately after landing.

Obstacle 6

oh yeah... that's obviously the nightmare of every Turmac Roll player! No doubt: That's the most difficult combination! Above you see it a a whole and below there is al lager picture of the three evil trees :)

Getting over this combination is indeed pretty tricky: Jump off in front of the first small tree. At the moment you are above the big tree trunk push the left arrow key to slow down and land in front of the second small tree. After the landing immediately jump and speed up again. It's also possible (even if it's not happening very often...at least not to me) that you're landing on the big tree instead of behind it. React fast then and jump again directly.
Passing this combination will take several tries (i know that by experience 8-/), but if you figured it out once, it'll be no problem anymore!

Obstacle 7

Jump on the tree and jump again to collect the berry!

Obstacle 8

Jump on the tree and from the tree over the spike. You'll land on the ramp where you can jump off again to collect the brerry. BUT: Remember that after hitting the 3000 there will hardly be any free space after the ramp, but rather the next obstacle. Depending on your score you can consider if the berry is worth it to sacrifice your life!

Obstacle 9

Ridiculous! Here's really no danger at all! I always jump off the hill anyway, because at the first moment you can't tell if it's not obstacle 1.

Obstacle 10

Well, what shall i say? Jump off the hill, land behind the tree...that's it!

Obstacle 11

Jump off the small ramp. That should definitely get you over the tree. Maybe you have to slow down a little to collect the berry, but speed up again, because you've to take the next leap from the humpy hill to get over the spike. Then one hop over the first small tree and then another one over the second one.(You shouldn't jump off the second humpy hill)
The end of this combination is probably the most difficult thing about it, but it's not too hard :) Jump on the big tree trunk and from there over the small ramp, because you don't need it for the last leap over the tree and the spike. On the contrary: If you use the ramp, you'll certainly hit the spike

Obstacle 12

Jump off the first hill to get over the tree, then just let little Turmy roll until you reach the last little spike. Jump over it from the ground and not from the hill in front of it. In 80% of the tries the leap from the hill will make you crash into the spike...I tried it a thousand times. Don't care about the berry, usually you'll collect it anyway..

Obstacle 13

Jump offthe first hill to get the first berry, then once again to collect the second one. After that take a leap over the first tree, then one over the second one...that's not very hard, is it? If you don't want to count the hills, with these berries you can remember easily where you have to ump off (always after the berry :) )

Obstacle 14

Yay! My favorite "obstacle"...actually you don't have to do anything here. Just let the Turmac roll and he'll collect the berries on his own. ;) Of course you have to jump off the first hill, because at this moment you can't tell which obstacle it is...5,10,12,13 or 14? If you see the berry on the hill you can relax a few seconds (before you get a muscle cramp in your fingers :P).

I hope this helped you a little to get n overview of the game. But: Practice makes perfect! :D

If you want to make your way to the world challenge or a trophy position someday it's probably good to know that your score will be reviewed by The Neopets Team if it's over 4500, what means that it won't go through immediately...useless for challenges. If you try for a trophy on the first two days of the month, when the highscore-tables have been reset, a score between 4300 and 4497 should do, because higher scores will be reviewed and that takes some time :)!

If you have any questions, improvement suggestions or no certain reason feel free to send a Neomail to me!

Many thanks to sandmaster1320 for helping me translate the guide from my German version!

Started on: 27 Nov, 2007

Finally a nice screenshot of mine :)