Talk:Arcade Mode/@comment-159.178.226.148-20120919172858/@comment-99.99.171.121-20121003153452

That's not right. I can get those bonuses plus No Bananas Sliced quite easily.

I did some experiments a while back to try to figure out what earns combo rookie / apprentice / assassin / master / god. I started tracking a bunch of things I thought might matter -- my maximum combo, my maximum blitz, my number of combos, and the total number of fruit sliced in combos. I'm pretty sure those bonuses only depend on the total number of fruit sliced in combos.

If I count up the fruit sliced in combos (ie: a +3 combo, a +4 combo, and a +3 combo is 10), then I consistently get Combo Rookie if my total is 22 or more, regardless of how I get to 22, whether I get bliz bonuses, etc. and I consistently don't get it if my total is 21 or less. (Note that the game gives you the 3 highest bonuses you've earned. In case of a tie, I suspect it's random.  That means that to do clear experiments on Combo Rookie, you need to hit a bomb and miss a banana, or else you're at risk of getting too many 10 point bonuses, and having Combo Rookie lose the coin toss.)

So I'm pretty sure you earn Combo Rookie by having a total of 22 or more fruit sliced in combinations. I'm also pretty sure the cutoff for Combo Apprentice is 43 or more. My results for the higher bonuses are fuzzier. I think Combo Assassin is 54 or more, and then Combo Master kicks in around the mid 70s. (It's not that I can't get the higher bonuses, it's that it's harder for me to hit specific numbers in the 50s and up, so I've got bigger gaps in my data, plus it's harder for me to reliably do real-time arithmetic while simultaneously playing a quality game of Fruit Ninja.)

If anyone wants my full data record, or wants to help out with this experiment, reply here and let me know!