Snake

Rules and help

Snake is a simple arcade game: eat, grow, survive. There is no wrap-around on this board — edges are solid walls.

How to play

• Board. 15 cells wide by 11 tall. Hitting a wall or your own body ends the run.
• Move. Arrow keys, WASD, or on-screen controls. You cannot reverse directly into yourself in one step.
• Food. Each berry adds length and +10 to the score. A new berry appears on an empty cell.
• Speed. Modes: Relaxed (slower start), Classic, and Quick (faster start). Every 5 berries the tick rate steps up until that mode’s floor speed.
• Pause. Pause to take a break; resume from the same position.
• Win condition. There is no fixed “clear” — play for a high score and long survival. Filling the board is theoretically possible but rare; most runs end on a wall or tail bite.
• Win. You win if you fill every cell; most runs end on a wall or the tail. There is no separate timed clear for a normal run.

Tips

• Hug the edges early only if you leave an escape lane; trapping yourself in a corridor is the usual late-game death.
• When the snake is long, plan two turns ahead so the head never cuts off the only path the tail is about to vacate.
• Relaxed is best for learning patterns; switch to Classic or Quick once you can loop without panic.
• After every fifth berry the game speeds up — clear space before that bite if the board is already tight.
• Pause is allowed; use it if a notification breaks your rhythm rather than forcing a bad turn.

Playing on a phone or tablet

Use the direction buttons under the board, or swipe across the board. Pause and New game stay in the bar above it. The rest of the page still scrolls.

Frequently asked questions

Does the snake wrap through the walls?

No. The edges are walls. Touching one ends the run.

How does scoring work?

Each berry is worth 10 points. Speed rises every five berries within your chosen mode.

Where is my best score saved?

On this device in the browser. Clearing site data for Play Solo removes it.