Snake Typing Game

Your snake crawls forward on its own and never stops. Four words sit around the board — one above, one below, one on each side — and each word is a direction. Finish the word on the left edge and the snake turns left; finish the one on top and it turns up. The four words always start with four different letters, so your very first keystroke already commits you to a direction.

Everything else is the snake game you already know. Hit a wall or your own tail and you lose a life. Eat the food dot and you grow. The number floating above the food is what it pays: food carrying a longer word is worth more score and more length, so the short path and the big score are not always the same choice.

Decide where you are going before you start typing, not halfway through a word. A word you have already read comes out as one burst; a word you are reading and typing at the same time comes out at walking pace, and the snake does not wait for you.

Think one turn ahead like you would in the original snake. Steering into a corner is how good runs end, and the fix is to plan the turn after the one you are typing. A wrong key never steers you the wrong way — it just resets that word — so a calm recovery always beats mashing.

Pick your level before you press play and it sets both halves of the difficulty. Easy steers with three and four letter words and crawls slowly enough to read all four before you commit. Normal runs four to six letter words at a working pace. Hard deals six to eight letter words, moves fastest and gives you two lives instead of three, so a mistimed turn actually costs something.

That pairing is what makes typing snake practice rather than just play. The short-word level drills raw key location while you learn the steering. The middle level builds the common letter runs — th, ing, er — at a speed where you cannot look down. And the long level forces whole-word reading, because by the time you have spelled out an eight-letter word one key at a time, the wall has already arrived.