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Snake

Collect apples. Keep clear of walls and your tail.

Choose your pace

How to play Snake

Snake is the friendly browser version of the classic grow-the-snake game. You steer a snake around a 22 by 28 grid, and a single red apple sits somewhere on the board. Guide the snake's head onto the apple and it eats it: your score goes up by one, the snake grows one segment longer, and a new apple appears on a free square. There is no time limit and no enemy chasing you. The only two ways to lose are hitting the outer wall or running into your own body, so the game gets harder as the snake grows and, in Classic or Quick pace, gradually speeds up.

While playing, the snake keeps moving and cannot turn back on itself, so a left turn while heading right is ignored rather than ending the run. That single rule is what makes Snake a planning game: you have to decide where the tail will be a few moves from now, not just where the apple is.

Controls

  • Keyboard: arrow keys or W, A, S and D to steer. Press Space or Enter to start or try again. Press P or Escape to pause and resume; the Pause button does the same.
  • Touchscreen: swipe up, down, left or right anywhere on the board. A turn is recognised as soon as a swipe crosses a short distance; you do not need to lift your finger.
  • On-screen D-pad: phones and small tablets also get a set of four direction buttons. They sit under the board in portrait and beside it on short landscape screens. Each is also usable with Tab and Enter or Space.

Steering while the start screen is showing begins the run straight away, so a child who taps an arrow instead of the Start button still gets going.

Speed, scoring and difficulty

Your score is simply the number of apples eaten in the current run. The best score is saved in the browser and shown in the Best toolbar above the board, so a child can chase their own record between sessions without an account.

Choose Steady, Classic or Quick before a run. Steady keeps the same relaxed pace; Classic speeds up slightly every four apples and Quick every three. Your chosen pace is remembered in this browser. Until you choose one, the game uses the session's working-level setting.

Pause at any time with the button, P or Escape. The snake and apple stay in place; Resume continues the same run. Switching away from the game pauses it, and returning does not restart it automatically. Finishing a paused run records its score. Closing or reloading the page ends the current run; best score and earned stickers remain.

Stickers

Snake feeds the site-wide sticker book. Reaching 1, 5, 10, 20 and 30 apples in a run unlocks First Bite, Hungry Snake, Long Slither, Garden Raider and Snake Legend. Stickers are awarded the moment the apple is eaten, so a run that ends badly still keeps whatever was earned along the way. Every sticker collected across the site lands in the sharedsticker book.

Want another go later? Use the favourite star above the game, then open Your games on the homepage to find it. For guest play, keep using this browser to retain your best score and stickers. Clearing its saved data can remove that progress.

Tips for a longer snake

  • Turn early. Because the snake keeps moving between turns, deciding one square late is what causes most wall crashes.
  • Work the edges. Running laps around the outside keeps the middle of the board free for the next apple.
  • Do not chase an apple into a gap you cannot leave. If the only way out is blocked by your own tail, the apple is not worth it.
  • Stepping onto the square the very tip of the tail is about to leave is safe, because that segment moves on in the same tick.

Who Snake is for

Snake is a short arcade activity with steering, route planning and a saved personal best. There is nothing to read, nothing to type and no wrong answer beyond crashing, so it is easy to hand to a child who is not ready for a reading-heavy activity. The KS1 setting in particular gives a version that never accelerates, which matters for children who lose control of a game the moment the pace changes.

It runs in any modern browser on a tablet, laptop or classroom whiteboard, so it works the same in a 1:1 session in the room as it does over a screen share.

Is Snake free to play?

Yes. It is free to play in your browser, with no signup, no download and no in-game purchases. Built by a UK SEND tutor with QTS.