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Egypt:|

Difficulty: 4/5
Record: 600/1500 m 150.000 pts
Bonus Mileage: 3200 m
Points needed for a 1-Up: 250.000

Although it is a strange thing: In my opinion India is harder than Egypt.
Of course Egypt is longer (or deeper if you prefer ^^) so you have to 
maintain your concentration a bit longer but in India the two last stages are 
really hard whereas here the high-gravity-stages are rather nice to play. One 
of them is a two-colour-stage, another one is a three-colour-stage and the 
sole four-colour-stage with an extremely high gravity is actually eased by 
the high amount of single brown blocks that link up as you go instead of 
crashing down on you.
Receiving both the Perfect Air Bonus and the Driller Badge in one go is 
possible but may require various tries as well as some luck so not a single 
air tank gets caught on two X-blocks when you've reached the bottom of a 
stage.

1-100m    : Four colours
            After completing India, the first stage of Egypt can only be 
            regarded as a pushover.
            Constantly drill down and aim for every air capsule without ever 
            stopping or thinking about chain-reactions.
101-200m  : Four colours
            Play like you did in the previous stage and you shouldn't have 
            any problems as there are only a few X-blocks more here than in 
            the first stage. Only once or twice you will have to think a bit 
            about how to uncover an oxygen capsule.
201-300m  : Two colours
            Enjoy.
301-400m  : Four colours
            Lots of X-blocks but since they're forming really big blocks  
            around the air tanks you can involve them in chain-reactions in 
            no time and nab all goodies.
            Just watch out not to get caught inside an X-block-dead-end.
401-500m  : Four colours
            Plays like 301-400m only with more X-blocks getting in your way. 
            Since air consumption still isn't too bad you should plan ahead 
            and destroy most brown blocks you encounter (but of course not 
            those being out of your way).
501-600m  : Four colours
            This stage again plays the same as 301-400m; drill straight down 
            as long as possible and when having to move around any X-blocks 
            you can destroy them via chain-reactions in most cases.
            Air capsules can also be reached easily as they lie in really big 
            X-block-boxes.
601-700m  : Four colours
            Think of this stage as the first stage with higher gravity: Easy-
            to-reach oxygen tanks and nearly no X-blocks.
            Just drill down constantly and pick up every item.
701-800m  : Two colours
            Enjoy.
801-900m  : Four colours
            This is the most difficult stage in Egypt so far: The number of 
            air tanks is low, they're well-secured by a few brown blocks and 
            you can cause nearly no big chain-reactions (neither with normal 
            nor with brown blocks) but the gravity and air consumption aren't 
            as bad as in this depth in India so stay calm and stick to my 
            hints in the further info-section of this guide to reach all 
            items.
901-1000m : Three colours
            As there are a lot of big normal blocks you can pretty well reach 
            all air tanks and the low number of X-blocks in this stage allow 
            you to drill straight down most of the time and have a few 
            columns above you nearly completely empty so you can drill 
            strategically when aiming for an item.
1001-1100m: Four colours
            This is like 401-500m so act accordingly.
1101-1200m: Four colours
            Like the previous stage this one consists of a lot of X-blocks  
            not only around the items but also throughout the whole well; 
            most of them can be destroyed by linking them and thus even 
            uncover the air capsules.
            Most goodies should be easy to obtain, but if you find one too 
            hard to get, you might just as well ignore it and move on since 
            air consumption has become pretty steep by now.
1201-1300m: Two colours
            Enjoy.
1301-1400m: Four colours
            Definitely lots of brown blocks and they even do not form big 
            blocks from the get-go but by simply moving around them you can 
            destroy a lot of them and often even automatically reach the 
            oxygen tanks.
            The best thing to do here is to build up some good speed and to  
            slalom around the X-blocks.
1401-1500m: Three colours
            A pretty easy ending for Egypt: This section is like 901-1000m 
            but with increased speed.