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Crazy Fun Facts

1. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

2. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

3. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

4. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime unknowingly at night.

5. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

6. No word in the English language rhymes with month.

7. A snail can sleep for three years.

8. All Polar bears are left-handed.

9. Butterflies taste with their feet.

10. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Click ENTER on your keyboard to start game.

Controls : Use cursor keys Up, Down, Left and Right to navigate Digger.

F1 to fire.

Space to pause.

F10 to return to the title screen.

+ to increase the game speed by 5.

- to decrease the game speed by 5.

If keys don't work, click on the game to give it the focus.

The game : Eat emeralds, collect gold and avoid monsters.

Emerald (): 25 points.

Eight consecutive emeralds: Extra 250 points.

Gold (): 500 points.

Killing a Nobbin () or a Hobbin () : 250 points.

Bonus (): 1,000 points.

(In bonus mode) Eating a Nobbin or a Hobbin is 200 points for first, 400 for 2nd, etc. (doubling each time) - still 250 for other methods of killing (shooting or hitting with bag of gold).

At every multiple of 20,000 points you get an extra life.

History : Digger was originally created by Windmill software (original autor Rob Sleath) in 1983. Andrew Jenner rewrote the game as Digger Remastered and released it under GNU GPL. The Digger Remastered was ported to Java by Marek Futrega.

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