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Play the classic Snake game free in your browser — eat apples, grow longer, and beat your best score. Keyboard, swipe and D-pad controls, three speeds, and nothing to install.
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Desktop: ↑ ↓ ← → or W A S D · Space to pause · Mobile: swipe or D-pad
The snake starts three segments long in the middle of a 20 × 20 board, already moving right. Steer it onto the apples: each one is worth 10 points and adds one segment of length. The board does not wrap around, so the edges are solid — touch a wall, or any part of your own tail, and the run is over.
The catch is that the thing you are avoiding is the thing you keep making longer. Every apple you eat makes the next one harder to reach.
| Move | Arrow keys or W A S D |
|---|---|
| Move (touch) | Swipe the board, or tap the D-pad |
| Pause / resume | Space or the Pause button |
| Restart | The play-again button on the game-over screen |
You cannot turn back on yourself. A 180° reversal would put the head straight into the neck, so the game ignores it — to double back, turn twice.
There is no bonus fruit and no multiplier, so your score is simply ten times the apples eaten. That keeps the number honest: 500 points always means fifty apples, whoever is playing.
Every three apples, the snake gets a little faster — and keeps accelerating until it reaches its quickest step of 60 milliseconds. That ceiling is deliberate: the game gets demanding without ever becoming faster than you can react.
Easy, Medium and Hard change how fast the snake moves before any acceleration. All three then speed up on the same schedule, so Hard is a head start on the difficulty curve rather than a different game.
400 squares, minus the three the snake starts with, leaves 397 apples — a perfect game would be 3,970 points. Nobody gets there: the final apples appear in gaps only a flawlessly coiled snake can still reach.
Cutting across the middle feels fast and is how most runs end. Travelling around the outside leaves the centre open as a corridor you can always escape into.
Long snakes kill you because you have lost track of where your own body is. Move in consistent loops so the tail lies in a predictable line rather than a tangle.
Do not steer toward the apple — steer toward where you will need to be once you have eaten it. The moment of death is almost always two moves earlier than it feels.
Before turning into an enclosed area, check there is a way out. Trapping yourself in a space smaller than your own length is unrecoverable no matter how well you steer.
On the default Medium speed: 200 is a warm-up, 500 shows real control, and past 1,000 you are managing your tail deliberately rather than reacting.
The idea is older than most people assume. It first appeared as the 1976 arcade game Blockade, where two players drew walls behind them until one crashed. The single-player version we recognise today spread through home computers and arcades for two decades under a dozen different names.
What made it famous was a phone. In 1997 Taneli Armanto adapted Snake for the Nokia 6110, and because it shipped preinstalled on tens of millions of handsets it became one of the most-played video games ever made — for a generation, the first game they ever finished a bus journey with.
The design has lasted because it needs no explanation. One rule you understand instantly, and a difficulty curve you build yourself, one apple at a time.
The whole game runs in your browser. Your best score and your sound preference are kept in your device’s local storage and are never uploaded — which also means the score belongs to that browser on that device, not to an account. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to download.
Use the arrow keys or WASD on a keyboard. On a phone or tablet, swipe anywhere on the board or use the on-screen D-pad below it. Press the spacebar to pause and resume.
Every apple you eat is worth 10 points and makes the snake one segment longer. There is no bonus fruit and no multiplier, so your score is simply ten times the number of apples you have eaten.
Yes. The snake speeds up slightly every 30 points, which is every three apples, and keeps accelerating until it reaches its fastest step of 60 milliseconds. That ceiling means the game becomes demanding but never impossible to react to.
They set how fast the snake moves before any acceleration: Easy starts slowest, Medium is the default, and Hard starts noticeably quicker. All three then speed up on the same schedule as your score rises.
The game ends. This version has solid walls rather than a wrap-around board, so the edges are a real boundary and cornering safely is part of the challenge.
No. Running into any part of your own body ends the game, which is what makes a long snake so much harder to steer than a short one.
A 180-degree reversal would drive the head straight into the neck, so the game ignores it once the snake is longer than one segment. To double back you have to turn twice, which is a deliberate part of Snake's design rather than an unresponsive control.
Yes. Press the Pause button or tap the spacebar to pause, then the same key or button to resume. The timer stops while you are paused.
Yes. Your best score is stored in your own browser using local storage, so it is still there when you come back. It is never uploaded, and it is tied to that browser on that device rather than to an account.
Clear the site data for tooladda.online in your browser settings, which removes the saved best score along with your other preferences for the site. There is no reset button, because accidentally wiping a hard-won score would be worse than the inconvenience.
On the default Medium speed, 200 points is a solid warm-up, 500 shows real control, and anything past 1,000 means you are managing your tail deliberately rather than reacting. Where you land also depends on which speed you started on.
The board is 20 by 20, so 400 squares. The snake starts three segments long, which leaves 397 apples to eat and a theoretical maximum of 3,970 points. Filling the board completely is close to impossible in practice, because the last apples appear in gaps only a perfectly coiled snake can reach.
Follow the edges rather than cutting through the middle, and keep your tail in a predictable shape you can steer around. Most players die because they trapped themselves in a pocket, not because they misjudged a single turn. Plan the move after the one you are making.
Because a long snake turns the board into a maze of your own making. The fix is to stop chasing apples in a straight line and start deciding where your tail will be in a few seconds, working in loops around the outside instead of zig-zagging.
Yes. The board scales to your screen and you can swipe in any direction on it or tap the D-pad underneath. Everything works the same as on a desktop, including the saved high score.
Yes, completely. There is no sign-up, no download and no paid tier. Open the page and press start.
No. It runs in the browser you already have, on desktop or mobile, with no plugin, app store or download involved.
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