So let's say on very hard mode, you send a Zoombini down bridge #1 successfully. Very very hard: same thing, but now it's 3 different features. The trick to very hard mode (and very very hard mode) is figuring out which cliff is the "allergic" or "picky" one. The "allergic" cliff will sneeze if either spiky hair or a red nose goes down its bridge, but the other "picky" cliff doesn't really care about hairstyle or nose color, as long as it has either spiky hair or a red nose, it'll be allowed. Instead, it's easier to look at it as one cliff being the "allergic" one, and the other cliff being the "picky" one. However, this does NOT mean the other cliff is automatically allergic to ponytails and green noses like you'd expect. Very hard: One cliff will be allergic to 1 trait each of 2 different types, for example, spiky hair and red noses. Oh so hard: same thing, but one cliff might be allergic to red and green noses, so the other cliff is allergic to the other 3 nose colors. Not so easy: if one cliff is allergic to red noses, the other cliff is allergic to every nose color except red. It's easier to understand if you lay out the differences between the 4 difficulties.
Well, as a grown man who is probably well over 2x the target age for this game, I finally figured it out. It absolutely confused me as a kid, and apparently still confused some of us as adults. A quick & lazy Google search didn't turn up anything, and even the instruction manual didn't say anything useful about the higher difficulties, other than the fact that the cliffs/rocks will be checking for more than 1 Zoombini feature. I've seen people asking how the allergic cliffs and stone cold caves work on very very hard mode, since sometimes it seems that the traits being checked for will have weird exceptions where some Zoombinis on both sides will have that trait.
(I've heard that they may have changed it for the newer versions, but I did my testing on the original Windows copy.)
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