Serpent
Arcade classic1 playerClick the game once, then play. F for fullscreen.
About
Steer a flowing lime and teal snake through a walled garden. Normal apples score 10 and grow your snake by one cell. Every fifth normal apple brings a golden apple: catch it within six seconds for 50 points and two cells of growth.
Take a short ready beat, then build from 8 to 18 moves per second as you eat. Level rises every five normal apples. Queue two turns ahead, keep an escape route, and fill the garden for a 100-point finish bonus.
Tips
- Plan two turns ahead. Duplicate directions and U-turns are ignored; a third queued turn is dropped.
- Gold lasts six seconds. Its shrinking ring shows your time left; pausing freezes the countdown.
- Follow a departing tail when space is tight, but leave room for growth after an apple.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys or W A S D | Steer; buffer up to two turns in press order |
| Swipe | Steer on a touch screen |
| D-pad or left stick | Steer with a gamepad |
| Enter or Space or A | Start and restart |
| P or Esc | Pause |
| M | Mute sound |
| F | Fullscreen |
Keyboard, touch and gamepad all work. The game runs in your browser inside a locked-down frame with no network access; nothing you do is sent anywhere and nothing is saved.