Uploaded September 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This trick allows you to get the maximum score on every level in co-op mode by making the game set your position to the same point in the level that you ran out of time in.
For some reason, if the second player is bouncing off of a plant, bubble, enemy, or the other player when the timer runs out, they will be respawned in the same place instead of reset to the bottom of the level. This means that if you start bouncing off your co-op partner's head right next to the escape rope, you'll be able to escape the level before the timer even begins ticking down.
It becomes trickier in the fourth levels of each world since the rising spike wall is added. For these, you absolutely have to get the bonus 15 seconds out of the goal treasure since the amount of time you have directly affects the speed at which the spike wall will pass through the map. 3-4 is the most difficult because you must set Nana near the top of the map above a bubble and drop just before the timer expires.
Note that this does NOT work with the achievements. According to the level select's clock, you completed the level in as little time as possible, but the "world" total adds the amount of time from each restart to your total time spent in that world. What this means is that running out of time in one map puts (for example) 1m40s on the clock, and completing that map after the reset in 10s puts the total time at 1m50s. The achievements judge by time per world, not individual level time.
Performing this trick only improves your leaderboard score. For the maximum score, be sure to collect all the animals and gems, as well as complete each level (using this glitch) with a 15 second bonus from the goal chest.
This is not possible in single player. In co-op, it's always the second player (Nana) who can perform this trick.
The maximum score you can achieve is 443,500. I'm sharing this glitch to prove that my leaderboard score is legit and was achieved through in-game means, easily performed by anyone. Before I found this, I was on top of the leaderboards anyway.
This trick allows you to get the maximum score on every level in co-op mode by making the game set your position to the same point in the level that you ran out of time in.
For some reason, if the second player is bouncing off of a plant, bubble, enemy, or the other player when the timer runs out, they will be respawned in the same place instead of reset to the bottom of the level. This means that if you start bouncing off your co-op partner's head right next to the escape rope, you'll be able to escape the level before the timer even begins ticking down.
It becomes trickier in the fourth levels of each world since the rising spike wall is added. For these, you absolutely have to get the bonus 15 seconds out of the goal treasure since the amount of time you have directly affects the speed at which the spike wall will pass through the map. 3-4 is the most difficult because you must set Nana near the top of the map above a bubble and drop just before the timer expires.
Note that this does NOT work with the achievements. According to the level select's clock, you completed the level in as little time as possible, but the "world" total adds the amount of time from each restart to your total time spent in that world. What this means is that running out of time in one map puts (for example) 1m40s on the clock, and completing that map after the reset in 10s puts the total time at 1m50s. The achievements judge by time per world, not individual level time.
Performing this trick only improves your leaderboard score. For the maximum score, be sure to collect all the animals and gems, as well as complete each level (using this glitch) with a 15 second bonus from the goal chest.
This is not possible in single player. In co-op, it's always the second player (Nana) who can perform this trick.
The maximum score you can achieve is 443,500. I'm sharing this glitch to prove that my leaderboard score is legit and was achieved through in-game means, easily performed by anyone. Before I found this, I was on top of the leaderboards anyway.
