About Snaky Pit
How to play · Foods · Survival
Goal
You are the bright green square. Survive the chase, shrink the enemy snakes,
and clear the board to advance levels.
- Snakes hunt you. Touch a snake head and you lose a life.
- Eat food to score points, reset your survival timer, and cut snake segments.
- When every snake is reduced to a head-only and destroyed, you clear the level.
- You start with 3 lives. Lose them all and it’s Game Over.
Controls
- Desktop: Arrow keys to move · Space to pause / resume
- Mobile: On-screen arrows to move · Pause button under the board
- Sound can be toggled with the Sound button
Survival timer
The clock at the top is your survival timer (starts at 10 seconds).
Eating useful food resets it. If it hits zero, you lose a life — so keep moving and keep eating.
Foods
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Red food
+10 score · resets timer · removes snake segments
Chain red foods quickly (within 750ms) for a combo — up to ×5 segments removed from every snake.
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Blue power food
+30 score · resets timer · removes 3 segments from every snake
Appears periodically and disappears if you wait too long.
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White freeze food
+20 score · resets timer · freezes all snakes briefly
Use the freeze window to eat safely and carve snakes down.
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Pink life food
+50 score · resets timer · grants +1 life
Rare and timed — grab it when it appears.
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You (green)
Stay off snake heads. After a life loss you get a short invincible flash.
Tips
- Red-food combos clear long snakes much faster on higher levels.
- Freeze food is great for safely setting up a combo chain.
- Don’t corner yourself — leave escape routes around the grid.
- Snakes pause briefly after a life loss until you start moving again.