Hungry Hungry
Snake

Every bite makes you longer.

The appetite ladder

smallest first — each rung unlocks at a length

Seed len 3 1 pt
Worm len 5 2 pts
Sparrow len 6 4 pts
Mouse len 8 8 pts
Goat len 12 16 pts
Elephant len 17 32 pts

A / ←D / →

Hold to steer

You never stop. Let go and you coast straight on. Edges wrap around.

Aim your mouth

Only prey inside your forward mouth opening is a bite. Brushing past does nothing.

Escpauses

Four ways to die

Your own body, an animal still too big for you, a rock, or a pond.

One way to finish

Catch your own tail tip in your mouth from length 7 and the score doubles — and the hunt is over.

Score more Full Mouth ×2 — take the biggest bite you can Tight Bite ×2 — eat close to your own body Hungry Chain +½× a rung — bite again quickly

Field notes

Eat up. Make room.

Keep moving and steer by holding left or right. Only prey inside your forward mouth opening counts as a bite. The longer you survive, the wider that opening gets and the larger your next safe meal can be.

Hold A / ← to turn left · D / → to turn right · Esc to pause.
Seeds at length 3 · worms at 5 · sparrows at 6 · mice at 8 · goats at 12 · elephants at 17.

Every bite scores, and only bites score — there are no points for staying alive. The ladder doubles: a seed is 1 point and every rung above it is worth two of the rung below, so an elephant is 32 seeds. The three recognised hunts multiply that bite rather than adding to it — Full Mouth for the largest meal you can take doubles it, Tight Bite for eating close to your own body doubles it again, and each rung of a Hungry Chain adds half again. Edges wrap. Your own body does not. Touching a locked animal ends the run.

Green ring: eat it. Coral ring: it eats you. Your first meals are ringed in green dashes so you can find them; that ring fades after your first bite and is gone after your second. The coral dashes stay, on every animal still too big for you.

Rocks and ponds are walls. 3 rocks and 2 ponds per field, in the same places for everyone playing that hunt.
The elephant is not the end. Eat one and the field speeds up and grows up around you. Only two things finish a hunt: the two-minute clock running out, and taking your own tail.
You start on an open road. For the first five seconds nothing too big to eat is in the lane you begin travelling down — the animals keep off it, the way they keep off a boulder — so those seconds are yours to find a seed in. Everything on the field is still lethal from the very first step; the road is clear, not safe.

Eat your own tail and the score doubles. Take the very tip of your tail inside your forward mouth — not a graze along your side, which is the same crash it has always been — and the hunt ends there and then at 2× the points. It needs a body of at least length 7: below that your turning circle is wider than you are long, so the tail is out of reach however you steer. The tail runs away from you at exactly your own speed, so you cannot chase it: turn back alongside your own trail and meet it coming the other way. Every step you spend setting it up is a step off that clock.

seed3

worm5

sparrow6

mouse8

goat12

elephant17

The ladder, and the length each rung opens at.

Inside the open mouth is a bite. Along your side is a crash.

The tail runs at your speed — cut back alongside your trail and meet it.

Local prototype controls

Tune the feel

Dev tools: this panel opens on a local checkout, and anywhere with ?debug. Moving a rule applies these numbers live and stops the run ranking — the bar's Ranked rules button puts the shipped rules back.

Prey art Growth drama × Swallow size × prey radius Swallow pace × body speed Swallow travel units Swallow stretch × long Snake speed Turn speed ° Food speed × Body per length Mouth scale × Food count Tight bite gap Chain window steps Full mouth × Tight bite × Chain level +× Tail bite multiplier × Escalation speed × per elephant Rocks Ponds Opening lane steps

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Adjust a control to tune the live run.

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0 bites 3 long Each block is a length; each dot is the animal that paid for it.

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All-time appetite

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