Snake

Eat, grow, and stay off your own tail.

PuzzleCategory
EasyDifficulty
FreePrice
NoneInstall

Snake is the one everybody has already played once, usually on a phone with no app store. Steer around a 30-by-20 board eating what appears; every piece makes you one segment longer and the whole board a little faster. The walls are solid and so are you, which means the danger you end up dying to is almost always the tail you spent the last minute growing.

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Controls

Keyboard
← ↑ ↓ →Steer
W A S DSteer (alternative)
EnterStart
Space or PPause
RRestart

Touch: Swipe anywhere on the board to turn, or use the on-screen direction pad.

Tips

  • Speed is tied to length, not time. The run does not get harder until you make it harder by eating, so a cautious approach genuinely works.
  • Every fifth piece of food spawns a golden morsel worth 50 instead of 10, but it only lasts six seconds and it starts flashing when it is about to go.
  • You can follow your own tail safely: the last segment moves out of the cell in the same step you move in. Hugging your tail is the standard way to survive a crowded board.
  • Turning costs nothing, so the safe pattern on a long run is a boustrophedon sweep, up and down the columns, rather than chasing food directly.
  • Two turns can be queued at once, so a quick up-then-right registers as both rather than dropping the second. You do not have to wait for the first to land.

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Achievements (16)

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