# Doodlejump

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodlejump/533841>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 26, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodlejump/533841 "2010-03-26T03:29:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodlejump/533841/1 "2010-03-26T03:29:35Z")

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Holy Lord Jesus, this little game is addictive.

31,718.

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**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodlejump/533841/2 "2010-03-26T04:04:37Z")

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I’m absolutely terrible at this game (I’m not even going to embarrass myself by posting my high score), but yes, it is extremely addictive. It’s the perfect ‘waiting in line with a few minutes to waste’ game.

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**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodlejump/533841/3 "2010-03-26T15:07:30Z")

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Damn you.

Not only is it addictive, but it plays into my fear of heights. The longer I play, the higher the lil’ guy gets, and I start getting REALLY SCARED of falling. But fall I do. Damn you!

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**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodlejump/533841/4 "2010-03-26T23:57:22Z")

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The high scores on there are truly unbeleivable. The top was like 5 million or something. You would have to play without error for weeks to get that score. I’m pretty sure people are exploiting some sorts of glitches or somehing.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doodlejump/533841/5 "2010-03-28T02:48:13Z")

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> [@Cubsfan](#):
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> The high scores on there are truly unbeleivable. The top was like 5 million or something. You would have to play without error for weeks to get that score. I’m pretty sure people are exploiting some sorts of glitches or somehing.

Interesting point.

I actually just played a few games after I read your post here, and used a stopwatch to time how long it took to amass score. My estimate is that you get about 10,000 points a minute; it’s a fairly predictable relationship, since score is purely a function of how high you go.

So to get a score of four million, which I have seen claimed, you would have to play the game for 400 minutes, or over six hours. Without making a single error. I admit I find that hard to believe.

Given that a lot of seemingly experienced gamers are very proud of scores like 200,000, I agree that the claims in the millions are almost certainly either lies, hacks, or exploits.