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Snake

Guide a growing snake to its food without hitting a wall or its own tail.

Play immediately. No account required.

Guide a growing snake through three handcrafted stages. Pick your route before every run; no account needed.

Snake

Serpent Run · three routes

LOADING SERPENT RUN
Building three routes…

Choose a stage, then start your run.

Rules

  1. Guide the snake to the food square.
  2. Each piece of food adds one point and makes the snake one square longer.
  3. The snake moves continuously after the game starts.
  4. You may turn up, down, left, or right, but you cannot reverse directly into the next segment of the body.
  5. Hitting the edge of the board or any part of the snake ends the game.
  6. Clearing every open square is a complete win.

Controls

Use arrow keys or WASD on a keyboard. Press Space to pause or continue. On a touch screen, swipe across the board or use the direction buttons below it.

Stages

  • Meadow is an open board with a relaxed 160 millisecond step.
  • Circuit adds twin barriers and moves at 120 milliseconds.
  • Ruins adds broken walls and moves at 88 milliseconds.

Choose a stage before every run. Selecting a new stage resets the board and its route-specific best score.

A brief history

Snake belongs to a family of maze games that grew from the two-player arcade game Blockade, released by Gremlin in 1976. Similar games appeared on early home computers, but Nokia's built-in mobile-phone versions made the single-player form familiar to a much wider audience in the late 1990s.

Sources: The International Arcade Museum's Blockade entry and SnakeGame.net's history.

Privacy

The game is generated and played locally. Instruo does not upload scores or require an account.