How to Play Snake Classic - Step by Step
Snake Classic is the grid snake game played right in the browser: steer the snake to the food, grow one segment per bite, and avoid the walls and your own tail. This guide covers the controls, the speed ramp, pausing, fullscreen, and how your best score is kept.
Start a run
Open the page and the canvas draws a ready screen straight away. Press an arrow key, or swipe on the canvas on a phone, and the run starts instantly - there is nothing to install and no account to create. The snake moves on a 24x24 grid, and each piece of food it eats adds one segment to its tail.
Steer with keyboard, swipe, or pad
On a keyboard, use the arrow keys or WASD. On phones and tablets, swipe across the canvas or use the on-screen pad that appears on touch devices. Fast fingers are safe here: the game queues up to three turns at a time and filters out instant reverses, so a quick double-tap does not make the snake eat itself.
Survive the speed ramp
The pace rises as you score. Every 5 foods the snake speeds up, with the move interval dropping from 140ms toward a 70ms floor, so late runs get genuinely tense. A run ends when the head hits a wall or the tail, and a clear game-over overlay appears on the canvas.
Pause, restart, and fullscreen
Press P to pause; a paused overlay shows on the canvas until you resume. After a game over, Space starts a fresh run. One click on the Fullscreen button plays it big while the score line and buttons stay visible, and Escape returns to the page.
Keep your best score
Your best score is saved automatically in this browser's localStorage and shows next to the live score, updating the moment a run beats it. It stays on this device only - there are no accounts or leaderboards - and clearing site data removes it. The game is also silent: no sound effects or music.
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