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Short for "Yet Another Stupid Death," the YASD phenomenon originated with NetHack but applies to all games that feature permadeath, such as Spelunky.
YASDs occur when your character dies for reasons that should have been easily preventable. Examples sorted by game:
Spelunky Classic[]
- Running into a moveable push block a bit too fast and instantly dying.
- Having like 10 lives but somehow a random Frog and a Tiki Trap manage to hit you down to one life and so you just jump into spikes cause you're so frustrated
- Accidentally blocking the exit with a movable block and having no bombs or Mattock to break it
- Accidentally placing a bomb wrong and frantically trying to pick it up, the bomb detonates
- Accidentally placing a bomb wrong while trying to throw it in the giant spider’s web, frantically trying to pick it up, thus triggering the spider
- Jumping from a place to a bottom level, hesitating, overshooting and landing on spikes
Spelunky HD[]
- Playing Spelunky with a friend who is prone to whipping you and throwing pots in your face.
- Stealing the Ankh and getting killed before the Moai, then killing yourself again out of frustration.
- Bouncing off of an enemy and landing on spikes right below it.
- Looking for the Black Market, only to be killed by the ghost due to taking too long.
- Looking for the Black Market, and get killed by your own bombs
- Looking for the Black Market, going down a ditch and remembering you have no bombs or ropes left
- Doing the above, suiciding, and remembering you had a jetpack and/or climbing cloves
- Looking for the Black Market, taking too long, running away from the Ghost, and getting killed by a trap/monster
- Doing the above while wanted and being killed by a shopkeeper
- Doing the above, falling into the water on a Flooded Caverns level, and being killed by Old Bitey.
- Doing that because the entrance was at the bottom of the Flooded Cavern
- Crushing a Jetpack with a Shield or a Crush Trap.
- Getting shot by an arrow that knocks you into spikes.
- Doing the above, but getting knocked into a bomb you just threw.
- Placing a rope to save a damsel because you have one life left and then dropping her before climbing down and she starts running and then you go back up but she falls down and you jump down and die because you only have one life
- Getting stuck in a loop where a yeti keeps throwing you against a wall and you bounce back, and the yeti throws you again, and you keep doing this as your hearts drains away, one by one.
- Looking for the Black Market, running out of bombs, trying to blow up the blocks in front of the entrance with Fire Frogs, taking too long, and getting killed by the ghost.
- Doing the above but being killed by the Fire Frogs, not the Ghost.
- Doing the above and getting eaten by Old Bitey because the entrance to the Black Market was at the bottom of the flooded cavern
- The game glitches as you run into a pushable block and you die for no reason whatsoever.
- Killing Anubis with the last of your bombs in the Temple, only to realize that you needed a bomb to bypass a lava pit
- Throwing a pot at a wall that contains a monster (that falls offscreen), and jumping on the monster, only to find that it had moved.
- Throwing a pot at a wall that contains a monster (that falls offscreen), and jumping on the monster, only to find that it had landed on spikes.
- Throwing a pot at a wall that contains a monster (that falls offscreen), and jumping on the monster, only to find that it had landed next to a tiki trap.
- Throwing a pot at a wall that contains a monster (that falls offscreen) while wanted, and jumping on the monster, only to find that it had landed next to a shop, then getting shot at by the shopkeeper.
- Doing the above, and running away, only to fall onto spikes/next to a tiki trap.
- Throwing a stone upwards to trigger an arrow trap, but the stone falls back down on to your head while stunned and the arrow ricochets into your stunned form
- Going into the Black Market while wanted, and being killed by shopkeepers
- Doing the above and running away, only to fall onto something else which promptly kills you anyway
- Throwing a rock upwards to get an arrow from an arrow trap, and getting hit by the rock when it falls back down.
- Watching Olmec crush your companions, leaving you with 1 HP, then blundering into a frog while you are still trying to figure out what happened
- Taking the Crystal Skull, and then being killed by the Ghost.
- Killing Old Bitey on a Restless Dead level, taking the resulting Crystal Skull, and being killed by the ghost that then comes.
- Trying to kill Old Bitey, taking too long and getting killed by the Ghost.
- Trying to get enough money to buy a Jetpack, then the ghost comes and you try to get to the exit but die from fall damage.
- Killing yourself while you have the Ankh before checking that you were on the level with the Moai, appearing back at the door, and killing yourself again because you're SO MAD that you just wasted the Ankh.
- Trying to avoid the above by searching the level for the Moai, taking too long, and being killed by the Ghost.
- Losing the Ankh after you just stole it.
- Killing yourself to get inside the Moai and accidentally leaving the Hedjet behind, then killing yourself in frustration.
- Doing the above, but getting killed by a monster or falling into the Abyss.
- (Spelunky Classic only) Suiciding by bomb or letting monster kill you, then remembering you could have kept that shotgun by doing Esc + F1 (It won't work in HD)
- Running across a gap one block wide thinking the block on the other side in your path did not exist, but it does exist, so you fall down the gap onto some spikes
- Throwing a sticky bomb, but having it stick to an unseen enemy and watching it slowly inch back toward you.
- Throwing a sticky bomb in the City of Gold to destroy a crush trap. Unfortunately, the bomb sticks to an unseen enemy, and explodes in your face as the enemy moves.
- Be lucky and survive the explosion, but get knocked into the crush trap, which kills you. (It's happened before!)
- Holding a mine in Area 3, then falling too far and get stunned thus dropping the mine right under you and having it explode.
- Whipping a UFO, causing it to fall to the ground and explode, triggering a mine and launching it up into you while promptly exploding. (No, really.)
- "Falling" for a Idol fall trap in the The Temple without a Cape, some Bombs, or a Jetpack.
- Hiding in a one block hole with the idol and have the boulder rest right on top of you.
- Jumping and firing a shotgun, then being pushed into spikes in a dark level.
- Firing a shotgun at a monster, not realizing that further down line of sight is a shopkeeper.
- Killing yourself with your own bombs.
- Doing the above while looting the City of Gold.
- Doing the above after defeating Olmec.
- Throw a bomb, have it ricochet back to you and knock you out, and then having it explode right next to you.
- Putting a sticky bomb on a stunned vampire, only to have them wake up and jump up to you right when the bomb explodes.
- Letting the Ankh absorb the universe (i.e. waiting too long when it was triggered).
- Pushing a jetpack against the wall with a shield.
- Opening a chest without sufficient means to escape a potential Bomb trap inside it.
- Throwing a rock to hit an enemy, missing, and hitting yourself with the ricocheting projectile.
- Teleporting offscreen and dying as a result.
- Teleporting into a sealed room, then attempting to leave the room by teleporting and getting yourself killed.
- Teleporting into the Ghost.
- Teleporting into the Abyss.
- Teleporting into a wall.
- Teleporting away from a wall and into an enemy.
- Teleporting into a Vault.
- Teleporting near a scorpion trying to telefrag it, but the scorpion continues to dodge and then you teleport into a shopkeeper's bullets
- Jumping into water while holding your last flare, then dying from some unseen danger in the dark.
- Triggering an arrow trap with a projectile and getting hit with the dart anyway.
- Additionally, doing the above and getting hit with the dart after it ricochets.
- Avoiding an arrow trap and have it activate one behind you
- Shooting a gun that activates an offscreen arrow trap.
- Whipping an arrow while moving forward, and having it bounce into you anyway.
- Jumping on the Giant Spider and suddenly falling through it into some other danger.
- Attempting to throw a bomb into a web beneath a giant spider, but missing and hitting the spider instead.
- Running forward, and getting shot by an arrow trap that just came into view directly in front of you.
- Attempting to fall past an arrow trap, but failing, and getting shot with the arrow, which knocks you straight into an enemy which promptly kills you.
- Getting hit by an arrow trap and falling, stunning yourself long enough for a snake to kill you.
- With one heart left, placing a bomb then panicking as jumping in the air, then falling to your death.
- trying to get the temple shortcut but lose the key and kill yourself in frustration.
- Trying to juggle flares, weapons, damsels and idols on a dark level and then getting killed by some unseen danger.
- Failing to get to the Hell/HD entrance by SO CLOSE!!!
- Kill King Yama but get killed by a Vampire, Devil, Ox Face, Horse Head, Magma Man (If you don't have Vlad's Amulet), or one of the Tiki Traps that makes up King Yama's Throne.
- Dropping down a long distance without looking first and then falling into any number of unseen dangers.
- Grabbing the crystal skull in a dark Restless Dead level, jumping carelessly down a hole to evade the ghost and dying from falling damage or spikes.
- Holding an unconscious caveman or man-eating plant for too long.
- Carrying an unconscious Yeti, then getting thrown down the bottomless pit when he wakes up
- Doing the same, but being thrown onto an altar
- Get in an infinite loop of being thrown into a wall by a yeti when you have the Kapala.
- Destroying an altar on purpose and getting killed by one of Kali's punishments.
- Taking falling damage on an altar and getting sacrificed automatically because you were stunned.
- Forgetting to press the arrow key used to grab vines (up) or edges (towards edge) and then falling into spikes.
- Trying to escape from a monkey and in the process, falling into some spikes.
- Getting thrown into a spike pit or Tiki Trap by a monkey.
- Deploying a rope from a high ledge, then failing to catch the rope as you descend and dying from falling damage anyway.
- Accidentally having a boulder crash into a shop, thus angering the shopkeeper and getting wanted.
- Accidentally angering a shopkeeper.
- Intentionally angering a shopkeeper.
- While doing a so far very successful ghostrun with jetpack and mattock you accidentally dig too close to a shop thus angering the shopkeeper.
- Also accidentally opening a rigged chest in a shop.
- Opening a rigged chest And Get hit by the chest flying in your face.
- Trying to kill a shopkeeper with the Ghost, realizing it doesn't work and then, after luring the Ghost to the shop entrance, throwing a bomb at the shopkeeper, which promptly blows up and knocks you into the ghost. (Talk about karma)
- Trying to kill a shopkeeper with a bomb, but then it sticks to "the wall" but is connected to the shopkeeper somehow, who proceeds to run towards you and blow you up.
- Putting a die down very gently, which angers the shopkeeper
- Accidentally angering a shopkeeper by accidentally throwing the dice out of the betting shop.
- Accidentally angering a shopkeeper when putting down an expensive item and hitting the shopkeeper.
- Accidentally angering all the shopkeepers in the black market because of an explosive frog getting killed by a tiki trap.
- Trying to set a stunned mantrap on a shopkeeper, but dropping it on his foot.
- Trying that in Classic, the shopkeeper shoots the mantrap and you
- Taking chances with the spear traps instead of using bombs or ropes.
- Trying to kill boss monsters with the whip.
- Killing a giant spider by stomping it, then being killed by the resulting fall.
- Killing flying saucers at close range when you have a long range attack.
- Jumping on a flying saucer and then getting killed by its explosion.
- Hitting a Flying Saucer with a rope and having it crash down and explode on you.
- Just about anything involving a monster in a pot.
- Looking at a damsel, idol or something equally important while you accidentally fall into spikes or get killed by an angry shopkeeper.
- Loitering around a level for too long and getting killed by the ghost.
- Picking up an idol and foolishly getting killed by one of its traps.
- Trying to avoid fall damage by stomping an enemy, but instead of missing, being stunned from the fall damage, and then being killed by the enemy while still stunned.
- Moving away from one arrow trap, only to get hit with another that knocks you into an arrow from the first one you saw.
- Flipping over an arrow trap to dodge the arrow, only for the arrow to bounce off a wall and hit you.
- Digging horizontally too quickly under an unnoticed Push Block, which promptly falls and crushes you.
- Getting in an explosion for walking too close to a dead fire frog.
- Kill a fire frog only for it to explode a shop or vault and anger a shopkeeper.
- Forget you upgraded to sticky bombs.
- Forgetting you didn't upgrade to sticky bombs.
- Trying to rush past a shop (and its angry shopkeeper) while Wanted, being hit by an arrow trap that you failed to notice in your haste, and being knocked directly into the shop.
- Gratuitous sprinting (Death By Boredom).
- In Classic, attempting to jump on a Man-Eating Plant without Spike Shoes on.
- Upgrading to HD and attempting to jump on a mantrap with Spike Boots on is a learning experience rather than YASD... the first time. (Old habits die hard.)
- Being killed in the final boss room by lava or a caveman (Normally an acceptable way to go, but you were SO CLOSE!
- Anything to do with frogs, the friendly critter one included.
- While fighting Olmec, climbing at his head, jumping and dying because of fall damage.
- Getting killed by the corner of Olmec's head right before he crushes the last block in the pit.
- Clinging to the side of Olmec and being crushed against a wall. (It was a learning experience)
- Beating the final boss, then not having enough ropes to get back up to the exit.
- Beating the final boss, only to have the block underneath the exit appear on top of you and crush you.
- Dropping a Golden Idol in a shop to sell, but accidentally hitting the shopkeeper with it and getting shot.
- Taking the Golden Idol and escaping the boulder, only to jump on top of the boulder and get hit by an arrow trap.
- Taking the Golden Idol and escaping the boulder, only to be stunned by fall damage and crushed by the boulder.
- Trying to destroy a Tiki Trap with a Mattock, but getting speared before you complete the swing.
- Trying to bait Olmec down a narrow pit and forgetting to make an escape plan when he pounds down upon you.
- Dodging a Boulder after stealing an idol, then forgetting about a little something called rebound.
- Leaving the Idol Altar way too fast after snatching, then coming back after you thought the boulder was gone... Only to be crushed by an "off-screen delayed activation".
- Picking up an Idol, quickly throwing up a rope to climb and escape the boulder, only to realize your rope was too close to where the boulder comes out.
- Picking up an Idol and angering a Shopkeeper.
- Picking up an Idol and angering Kali.
- Picking up an Idol only to fall down the sacrificial pit.
- Sticking a bomb on a Monkey, who then proceeds to stick himself to you.
- Forgetting that you're in a Dark Flooded Cavern level and falling into the lake with your last flare.
- Picking up an Idol and forgetting that the Boulder travels in the direction you are standing.
- Trying to re-enact Indiana Jones by grabbing an idol in The Mines and realizing you run too fast, so you take pauses and accidentally get crushed by the boulder.
- Using a bomb near a stuck Boulder and getting crushed by it when it rolls again.
- Taking the idol first in the Sacrificial Pit level feeling without climbing gloves or a jetpack.
- Anything involving spikes.
- Making it safely to the end of the City of Gold, without noticing the crush block in front of you.
- Accidentally sacrificing yourself on an altar.
- Getting grabbed by a yeti, and used as a ball for it to play catch with his buddy.
- Getting grabbed by a yeti, and used as a ball to play hacky sack against a wall.
- Getting grabbed by a yeti, and getting unceremoniously thrown into the bottomless pit.
- Trying to attack a UFO with a boomerang and ending up getting a nice explosive gift from the crashing UFO. (Spelunky HD only)
- Enter the mothership without a jetpack or enough ropes and have UFOs and tanks demolish the only way to get to the end. (Spelunky HD only)
- Crawling over a boulder in a two tall corridor just to realize there's no room to safely bomb yourself out.
- Trying to stand up while crawling over a boulder in a tight space.
- Digging a tunnel using mattock in dark areas and getting to the treasure Shopkeeper's vault. (Spelunky HD only)
- Use the Scepter to kill an enemy in front of you, but then it homes in on something behind you, killing you in the process. (Spelunky HD only)
- Pretty much anything involving a transition from Classic to HD.
- Getting stuck to a Web while an enemy is giving chase.
- Taking the Key all the way to 3-4 to unlock the shortcut and then accidentally dropping the key into the void just before the exit, then killing yourself in frustration. (Spelunky HD only)
- Falling into the abyss slowly with the parachute, while you can do nothing but see yourself dying.
- Killing a shopkeeper guarding the exit from above by dropping a bomb, then taking fall damage while landing.
- Accidentally falling into the abyss while trying to exit.
- Killing a enemy near a powder box, then getting killed by the explosion caused by the powder box which got triggered by the blood of the enemy. (Spelunky HD only)
- Dying of fall damage even after having a Jetpack with full fuel.
- Dying by the ghost while the worm is swallowing you.
- Getting blasted into the air by the Yeti King's roar and ending the flight on spikes.
- Accidentally hitting yourself with rock at one heart.
- Trying to escape the ghost by digging only to have the mattock break.
- Getting eaten by a Mantrap just as you stun it.
- Getting killed by a Crush Trap due to Climbing Gloves.
- Being cornered by an Alien Lord's psychic bubble.
- Being cornered by Anubis's psychic bubble.
- Walk out of the mine entrance and walk directly into the path of an arrow trap that causes you to bounce off a cliff onto a snake platform, where the snake hits you and you fall off to land on spikes.
- Dropping an item (say, a Key) on a Spring in the Ice Caves and then getting stunlocked to death by it bouncing over your head repeatedly.
- Getting stunned by fall damage or a Yeti throw onto a blue partial block, which falls into The Abyss as you lie stunned on it
- Doing the above but landing on the floor and getting chucked or vaporised by a UFO
- Doing the above but landing on a mine on the floor
- Dropping a Camera on a Spring and having it knock you into the void.
- Using a bomb to kill an enemy outside of a shop, while in the shop and dying to due the Shopkeeper.
- Try to throw a damsel at a bat, miss, have the pug richochet off a wall and knock you into a spike pit.
- Accidentally using a Bomb to get to an item, trapped behind a Powder Box. (Spelunky HD only)
- Buying a Cape and then stepping out of the shop above a Spike Pit and slowly falingl to your death.
- Attempting to kill the Alien Lord with a shotgun in a crashed spaceship level only to learn the forcefield in front of him reflects bullets.
- Bombing a wall and then throwing another bomb only to have it ricochet and kill you.
- Breaking the Mattock and then throwing one of the pieces in frustration and then have it bounce back and kill you.
- Forgetting about the Spike Traps in the Jungle.
- Spectacularly bouncing a bomb off of the UFO and it smacking into you.
- Using Olmec as a trampoline, and then missing the platform.
- Starting with 5 health, attempting a drop hang and forgetting about the Tiki trap one block away, getting hit and stunned and taking fall damage.
- Doing the above with a cape.
- Attempting to throw a rope after grabbing The Idol and instead pressing every other button and throwing bombs everywhere and whipping the air and then being crushed by the boulder.
- Running after Olmec as he falls into the lava pool.
- Exploding a sacrificial altar.
- Exploding a sacrificial altar and running away from the spiders inside and into some spikes.
- Exploding a sacrificial altar and running away from the spiders inside and into some spikes, and then remembering you had a Jetpack.
- Exploding a sacrificial altar and running away from the spiders inside and into some spikes, and then remembering you had a cape.
- Trying to make a sacrifice but then drop a bomb instead.
- Get a golden monkey, then accidentally hit it, killing it, then kill yourself.
- Grabbing the golden idol only to have the boulder destroy the third altar, summoning the ghost.
- Angering a shopkeeper and then running away and then making the Shopkeeper fall onto some spikes, and then laughing at his misfortune and get slaughtered by a Hawk Man.
- Doing the above with any other enemy.
- Looking at the already dead shopkeeper on spikes, then falling onto the same spikes.
- Hit a damsel with the Crysknife, when trying to pick her up, then get spammed by baby worms and bacteria.
- Sealing yourself in the Worm without having a bomb to explode reappearing blocks below you.
- Placing a bomb next to a damsel to reach a sealed room, then picking up the bomb instead of the damsel.
- Racing a Scepter orb and colliding with it.
- Forgetting about that one spider that you ran away from and it catches up to you.
- Failing to whip a bat, getting yourself killed, then it kills itself on your corpse
- Killing Anubis with the Crysknife, to have his scepter fall on your head and stun you as his psychic orb inches closer. (Spelunky HD only)
- Getting hit by an arrow trap you don't see which throw you in a lava pool behind you.
- Getting stunned by an enemy, then fall into an altar.
- Rescuing an ally from a coffin and not murdering them immediately as a safety precaution. Later, having them pick up one of your carefully placed bombs and hurl it back at you.
- Losing your Eggplant on an Eggplant run followed by suicide.
- Losing the Udjat Eye followed by suicide.
- Shooting at a Black Knight with the Shotgun and getting killed by the deflected bullets.
- Throwing the Key at a Powder Box and being surprised that the Key came back to knock you out. Then, falling backwards while stunned into spikes.
- Getting 6 lives in the mines, then throwing a rock at a Powder Box and have the rock fly back hitting another powder box behind you, instantly killing you.
- Getting a Plasma Cannon on stage 1-1 from a crate only to kill yourself on spikes because of the recoil.
- Hitting yourself with a sticky bomb.
- Having your Hired Hand picking up a shotgun and fire at you because you're in the way between him and a monster.
- Having your Hired Hand crush you with a shield.
- Anything involving Hired Hands.
- Picking up an item in the shop, only to find that you don't have enough money to buy it, then forgetting that you're still holding it as you run out of the shop.
- Picking up an item in the shop, only to find that you don't have enough money to buy it, then accidently throwing it at the shop keeper instead of dropping it.
- Throwing a rock in the frozen zone, then going 3 tiles lower and shifting the screen a bit, causing the rock throw to resume into your face.
- Shooting a shotgun then having the angry shopkeeper you accidentally just shot at the wrong direction hurl you right into them.
- Throwing a bomb at a forcefield and having it bounce back, hit you, and blow up.
- Trying to throw a bomb into the web of a giant spider, then having it miss and roll into a shop.
- Trying to throw a bomb in the web of a giant spider and hitting the spider, who promptly eats you.
- Get stunned by a monkey and falling down and getting eaten by a mantrap.
- Throw a mine into a ufo, the ufo explodes and the mine comes back to stun you and explode.
- Enter an ice caves level, then have a yeti activate two mines, creating a landmine cannon that promptly kills you.
- Throw a stone to a caveman to have the blood from the caveman hit a powder box that explodes, sending the stone back to hit and knock you into some spikes.
- Want to enter a shop, but there's an arrow trap pointing right in the entrance. Drop something to trigger the arrow trap, it shoots the shopkeeper, who shoots you.
- Narrowly dodge an arrow from an arrow trap, and then walk straight into another one.
- Play tennis with a flare against a wall.
- Throwing the boomerang only to have it get stuck against a tiki trap and then you jump in front of it and get impaled.
- Think that you'll make it, and then you don't, and then getting stun-raped by a spider.
- Chucking an item into a Powder Box as you run, only to have it explode something lethal right into your face.
- Getting hit by a rock under a bounce pad in Level 3, causing the rock to repeatedly hit and stun lock you until you die.
- Getting to hell, then trying to stomp on a shopkeeper.
- Getting to hell, then jumping on Vlad's tower not realizing the spikes are lethal
- Making it to the final boss in hell for the first time (see not knowing)
- Trying to get the shop keepers gun in hell while it's sitting between two tiki traps.
- Saying "What's this?" then die from the trap you don't know about.
- Getting Olmec stuck in a gap where you can't kill him and having to kill yourself.
- Standing on a jungle tree to keep at a safe distance from a bomb, then having the bomb blow up the tree and drop you onto spikes.
- Trying to drop down a one block wide gap between a wall and a tiki trap, then having those stupid climbing gloves stick you and getting stabbed.
- Getting stunned by fall damage and having your weapon fly out of your hands and kill the fire frog right next to you.
- Get to the worm and forget that there is acid, fall in, and have only 1 heart and die.
- Firing the Scepter, having it target a Croc Man and getting zapped by your own pink ring of death as he teleports around to evade it.
- Throw the Eggplant at the final boss in Hell, only to have it miss and get yourself killed by an Imp's cauldron.
- Getting thrown by a Yeti into the breath of a Mammoth, and dying on impact.
- Being propelled by a spring into the breath of a Mammoth, and dying on impact.
- Getting stunlocked in a corner by a Tiki Man and watching in horror as he boomerangs your hearts away one by one (Spelunky HD only).
- Commiting suicide to get the hedjet, only to remember that you never got the ankh.
- Getting an Idol in the Mines, only for the boulder to block off the exit to the area... with no bombs or ropes to spare.
- Freezing a Mantrap with the Freeze Ray, failing to smash it by jumping on it, have the Mantrap escape the ice block and devour you. (Spelunky HD only)
- Waiting on the side of a lava pit for spike traps to go your way only to get hit by the jumping Magma Man.
- Fall in front of an arrow trap, get hit, bounce off a wall into spikes.
- Jumping over a lava pit at the exact moment a Magma Man jumps out, hitting you back into the lava.
- Falling in a Snake Pit without any equipment and getting trapped.
- Collecting the Golden Monkey's nuggets and accidentally killing yourself, or taking too long, thus having the ghost kill you.
- Dying in Olmec's cutscene due to the ghost chasing you. (This has been fixed.)
- Throwing a Corpse in the Ice Caves and having it bounce from a wall and land on a Mine right next to you.
- Getting killed by the Alien Lord's beams while trying to run away from them.
- Getting hit by a bat while trying to climb across a spike pit.
- Forgetting to throw two bombs at Anubis and getting killed by a psychic blast.
- Thinking you can ignore Anubis II, only to have him appear on the next level and kill you while you are trying to kill Olmec.
- Staying grabbed onto the ledge of a tiki trap for no good reason.
- Almost anything involving a Succubus.
- Letting a Hired Hand carry your Scepter, and then dying because the psychic orb hit you.
- Angering an avoidable Croc Man and having him telefrag you.
- Triggering a boulder trap and having it crush the key or chest required to obtain the Udjat Eye, and killing yourself in frustration.
- Entering the secret exit inside of the Moai Head too quickly, and not obtaining the Hedjet, and killing yourself in frustration.
- Crushing Anubis with a Crush Trap by accident, and having the Scepter get crushed too, and killing yourself in frustration.
- Letting a Crush Trap crush a shopkeeper, and getting killed by a shopkeeper on a later level as a result.
- Letting a Crush Trap crush a jetpack, and dying by the explosion.
- Throwing a bomb at a Crush Trap, then getting into it's line of sight, and having the bomb that is now stuck to it blow you up.
- Almost anything involving an Golden Idol.
- Collecting gold in a no-gold run, and killing yourself in frustration.
- Taking on a shopkeeper head on, and without any room to dodge his shotgun fire.
- Fooling around with the Plasma Cannon.
- Buying a Mattock, seeing a damsel and, being clever, dig down without looking, falling into a spike trap.
- Sprinting around and deciding to whip a pot, only to be hit by a spider, fall down the hole next to you, get hit by an arrow trap and then survive..... Only to die momments later by the same spider that now dropped down on you.
- Trying to jump over spikes, hitting your head on a block, and falling onto them anyway.
- Jumping to a ledge or shop and get shot by an arrow trap above you.
- Reaching Olmec's Lair, and not knowing what to do, stick a bomb under him as he's leaping, causing him to land next to you and exploding the bomb, killing you instantly.
- Activate an arrow trap carefully to avoid it, but get hit by it anyway.
- Blow up an arrow trap, only to have the arrow inside arc towards you.
- Anything related to playing Multiplayer.
- Forgetting Boulders can smash walls and getting flattened.
- Forgetting to sprint with the jungle idol when you are out of rope, and getting killed by piranhas or the ghost.
- Dying by a shotgun blast at the top floor of the Black Market with the Ankh, only to be resurrected right in front of the remaining bullets from said shotgun blast, and dying again.
- Using your jetpack to fly into an arrow trap in the lost city of gold, only to land in a pool of lava.
- Picking up and disarming a mine in Ice Caves, and finding that it was stacked pixel-perfect on top of another mine.
- Having 6 health with the Cape when entering the Jungle, surviving a hit by a Tiki Trap but then slowly float over to a second Tiki Trap while stunned.
- Getting to the City of Gold, and killing yourself with your own bombs.
- Doing the above but getting killed by the ghost instead.
- Doing the above, seeing the ghost, panicking, throwing your bombs around too much, and getting exploded by a bomb.
- Doing the above, trying to avoid getting exploded by your bombs and running straight into the ghost.
- Forgetting that you have sticky bombs.
- Thinking you have sticky bombs when you don't.
- Forgetting to pause the game.
- Thinking you have the Ankh but you don't and killing yourself.
- Getting shot by a shopkeeper, into an exploding UFO, launching you into a yeti, who throws you in The Abyss.
- Getting shot by a Shopkeeper into a mantrap.
- Trying to telefrag a UFO.
- Getting trapped in a one block wide two block deep hole with an exploding frog, all because of a bat.
- Trying out your newfound Plasma Cannon immediately after getting it, only to have your shot bounce back off a Forcefield and explode right in your face.
- Using Anubis' staff by accident in front of the city of gold, and the attack targets an enemy behind you, killing you.
- Doing the above, but a corpse knocks you into lava instead.
- Attempting to telefrag, and dying in a wall.
- Using hired help to bring the plasma cannon to the city of gold, and having them shoot you with it.
- The above, but with the scepter, doing the same thing.
- About to throw the eggplant at Yama during an eggplant run, and being hit by the raining skulls.
- Dying to the first spike trap you see.
- Forgetting that you can't whip yetis.
- Entering the City of Gold, just to be destroyed by an off-screen crush trap 30 seconds in.
- Getting hit by an enemy above a spike pit, which knocks you into the spikes.
- On 5-3, getting stunlocked and killed by a blue devil.
- Destroying the City of Gold for the "Big Money" achievement, but getting crushed by a falling push block instead.
- Forgetting that you do not have sticky bombs, and realizing that the bomb bounced off the wall and hit you in the face, exploding instantly.
- A succubus attacks you unexpectedly, leading you into a tiki trap, which then stunlocks you to death.
- Trying to exploit a mummy for infinite health, then vomit flies stun lock you.
- Opening a Rigged Chest inside a Shop, causing the Shopkeeper to go aggressive and shoot you with his deadly shotgun.
- Trying to trick the boulder by lying down next to it hoping the little bounce it does will make it hop over you.
- Trying to be a badass by blocking an arrow trap by throwing another arrow and missing.
- Not knowing that you can survive an explosion or psychic blast with 11 health or more and being blasted again while your confused about how your still alive.
- Trying to out-manoeuvre the ghost in the ice caves using a rope and jetpack only to have the jetpack run out of power mid-way and fall into the abyss, never to be seen again.
- Trying to use the web gun as an alternative to climbing gloves, but failing and dying from fall damage or the abyss
- Going to the black market where everyone's hostile for some reason, grabbing the ankh, dying and then resurrecting only to be shot to death mere seconds after resurrecting.
- Stepping on a mine in the Ice Caves and blowing up, because you've played Spelunky Classic and didn't realize that the mine is dangerous
- Jumping over a Tiki Man's boomerang, then getting hit by it on the way back and having it hit you two more times as you are knocked back into it.
- Getting from the mines all the way to the last level of the temple, then to be killed by a skeleton falling on top of you and killing you.
- Killing Anubis with the Plasma Cannon and then having the Scepter hit you in the head, throwing you into lava.
- Whipping pots in HD because you got used to it in Spelunky Classic and realising that it doesn't kill that deadly snake inside it.
- Mining a block underneath a push block with a mattock and then running ahead too fast and getting crushed.
- Attempting to grab onto a side of a block in The Worm, missing the blocks and falling into the spikes below.
- Try to deflect an arrow fired from an arrow trap and failing
- get 6 health and lose it all in a matter of seconds due to 1 bad jump
- Having a bat knock you into spikes
- Forgetting about the bat that was chasing you
- Getting stun-locked and having a bat nip you to death
- literally anything involving bats
- Getting to the jungle And moving as soon as the level starts and having a Tiki-man hit you with a boomerang
- Run into a skeleton
- Allowing your lesser skilled sister use the Crysknife and getting diced by them
- Getting tunnel-vision while near the end of a level and not seeing the spider on the ceiling
- Misjudging The Ghost's hitbox size
- Missing your whip attack due to the bugged whip hitbox and having a bat bite you
- Forget you have the Pitcher's Mitt and accidentally throw a rock at a shopkeeper
- Waste your resources and get stuck in a pit
- Having the game bug out while generating a level, requiring you to have a bomb to continue (of which you have none)
- Anger a Shopkeeper in a Black Market
- Getting yote by a Shopkeeper into an Arrow Trap and fall onto a Spike Trap
- Using your buddy as a human shield, angering them and causing them to chuck you into a spike trap
- Playing Versus Mode
- Gun Jump into an Arrow Trap
- Gun Jump into a Tiki trap
- Gun Jump into a Tiki-man who promptly throws a boomerang at you
- Thinking the unarmed Shopkeeper stuck in the spiderweb is harmless
- Getting confused by the Shopkeeper's movement patterns and getting blasted by him
- Attempt to avoid fall damage by stunning yourself with the camera and falling onto spikes
- Thinking the cursor can stun enemies because you played Captain Toad too much (I am ashamed of myself)
- Having the mouse cursor over an enemy and waking into it at 1 heart
- Picking up the golden idol in the mines because you looted the level, then have the ghost come and chase you, leading you into the boulder’s path and have the boulder stop and corner you in a 1 block tall and wide gap, so you can’t blast yourself out of the gap, then have the ghost kill you. (I am ashamed of myself for trying to pull this off.)
- Pressing the end adventure button thinking it would beat the game for you.
- Having a one block of ice that you need to get on to jump to the other side, thinking you have spike shoes instead of spring shoes and sliding off the edge into the abyss.
- Shoplifting the black market, getting the ankh and dying on the next level by the shopkeeper at the end of the next level.
- Failing to grab a ledge whille trying to avoid a blue frog on a dark level and falling two whole rooms into mantrap.
- Thinking Spelunky is as easy as Mario.
- Having a war against your friend and losing.
- Trying to pick up a Golden Idol, accidentally picking up the stunned maneating plant behind it (the plant having been launched into that position by a tiki man who threw his boomerang into the plant after you jumped over him), not noticing, and then getting eaten moments later when it wakes up.
- Getting stunned by a monkey and then falling directly in between two tiki traps because of it.
- Killing Yama, then having your Jetpack blow up by a Magma Man, sending you flying, then being stabbed by the Tiki Traps on the side of Yama's throne after barely surviving.
- Getting killed by one of Olmec's minions right before you leave the level, at the end of an (almost) successful speedrun.
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- Getting a sticky bomb stolen by a monkey, then it jumps back to you and blows you up
- Climbing down a rope into a spike pit, and bouncing off a skeleton into your demise
- Having Excalibur crushed by an elevator, then accidentally crushing yourself with the same elevator
- A hired hand setting off a robot that runs over to you and explodes
- Setting off the Volcana idol trap, only to get stunned by the level's pot of gold trying to escape
- Setting off the idol trap, only to get crushed by a push block
- Taming a turkey that runs over to the level exit, setting off the shopkeeper there
- Shooting a masked Olmite with the Plasma Cannon, knowing very well what would happen
(If these circumstances seem too specific, try playing Spelunky more!)