The edges are open
Run off the left side and you come out the right. That single change turns the corners from death traps into shortcuts, and it means the only thing that can kill you is your own tail, which is a more honest version of the game anyway.
Eat quickly and it pays more
Grab the next dot within about four seconds and the combo climbs. Dawdle and it drops back to one. So the fast route across the board is worth taking even when the safe route is obvious, which is exactly the kind of decision that ends runs at 200 points.
Controls, briefly
Click the board, then arrows or WASD. Space pauses. The pad works fine on a phone and is easier than swiping.
Older than the search engine by twenty years
It ran on arcade hardware in the mid seventies and reached everyone else on phones in the late nineties, preinstalled, no instructions, no menu. It turns up as google snake, google snake game and google games snake, all pointing at the same grid.
The other one people leave open in a tab without thinking is the dinosaur game, and if you want something with an ending, try google block breaker.
