Snake - Complete Game Guide
Snake is one of the most iconic games ever created, dating back to the late 1970s and made famous by Nokia phones in the late 1990s. The concept is beautifully simple: guide a growing snake around a grid, eating apples to score points while avoiding walls and your own ever-lengthening tail. This browser version delivers the full classic experience with smooth controls on both desktop and mobile.
How to Play
Your snake moves continuously across a grid. Direct it toward apples to eat them and grow longer. Each apple eaten adds one point to your score and one segment to your body. One collision with a wall or your own tail ends the game instantly.
- Use arrow keys or on-screen buttons to change the snake's direction
- Eat apples to grow longer and increase your score
- Avoid hitting the walls at the edges of the grid
- Do not let the snake's head collide with any part of its own body
Tips and Strategy
- Think two or three turns ahead - by the time you react, the snake may have already moved
- Avoid making tight U-turns when your snake is long, as you risk boxing yourself in
- When the snake is short, you can play aggressively and take direct paths to apples
- As you grow longer, prioritise safe routes over the fastest path to the next apple
Scoring
Each apple eaten scores one point. Your final score equals the total number of apples consumed before crashing. There are no time bonuses or multipliers - the challenge is purely about how long you can survive while collecting food.