Can I eat a snake the same size as mine in Snake Sprint?

Yes. A snake whose number is equal to or smaller than your length is green, and running into it adds its number to yours. Only bigger snakes, shown in red, end the run.

What happens when a saw hits my snake?

It cuts your body where the blade crosses it and you keep the part in front, so your length drops. If the blade catches your head, the run ends.

How do I reach the treasure chest?

Arrive at the finish long enough. Each of the five pillars needs more length than the last, and the chest beyond them needs a little over fifty. The chest lets you pick cash, gems or a new hat.

Hold and drag on a touchscreen, or use the left and right arrow keys, or A and D, on a keyboard.

Play Snake Sprint: free snake runner game

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Eat what is smaller, dodge what is bigger, grow long enough for the chest.

A 3D snake runner over the sea. Your snake slides down a long track on its own; drag to steer it. Every ball of your colour adds one to your length. Other snakes crawl down the track ahead of you, slower than you: catch one whose number is no bigger than yours and it is yours to eat, its number added to your own. The red ones are bigger, and running into one, even its tail, ends the run. Gates add or take away length, saws cut off the end of your tail, spikes cost a quarter of you and the pools let into the track swallow you whole. Past the finish your snake winds round the bonus pillars as far as its length reaches, and the longest runs reach the treasure chest.

Free to play, no download, no sign-up. Hosted with ❤ by GamerX.

How to play Snake Sprint

Press anywhere to start, then hold and drag to move the head left and right. The snake runs forward by itself and its body follows the exact path the head took. Eat the balls of your own colour for one length each. The other snakes crawl ahead of you with a number over their heads: green ones are no bigger than you, so catch them up to add their number to yours, and keep clear of the red ones, which are bigger, even as you pass them. Pick the better panel of each gate, go round the fences and drums, and keep your body out of the saws, because a saw keeps only the part of you in front of the blade. At the finish your length decides how many of the five pillars you wrap round; reach the chest and you choose a reward. On the results screen, stop the swinging pointer on the biggest multiplier.

Tips

A snake the same size as you is green and safe to eat, so a ball or two just before one can turn a red number green.
Red snakes reach further than they look, and a big one has its coil lying behind its head too. Pass them wide.
A saw cuts wherever your body lies, not only your head. Swerve early so that your tail is clear of the blade as well.
Each pillar wants about six more length than the one before, and the chest wants a little over fifty.
Spend the first cash on LENGTH. A longer start makes the first gates and green snakes easier to take.

About Snake Sprint

Snake Sprint is a snake runner built in three.js. The snake is drawn afresh every frame as a tube of overlapping scales laid along the path the head travelled, so it curls behind you as you steer, bulges as each meal goes down, and keeps its full girth as it winds round the bonus pillars. The camera, the sizes of everything on the track and the pace of a run were measured frame by frame from the genre it comes from, down to how far the camera stands back as the snake grows. The rules live in a file of their own and a test player runs thirty levels through them on every change, which is how the difficulty was set: the first levels are cleared by almost anyone, while later ones bring walls of big red snakes crawling side by side, swinging saws and pools that ask for a careful line. The other snakes crawl down the track at their own pace, each along a line planned so that it never crawls through a fence, a saw or another snake. There are nine skins, a new one earned every five levels, and thirteen hats, from a crown to devil horns; some of the hats lie on the track waiting to be eaten.

What you need

Graphics: WebGL, which every browser from the last decade has switched on already
Controls: Keyboard or touchscreen
On a phone: Yes
Install: Nothing. It runs in this tab.

Questions

Can I eat a snake the same size as mine in Snake Sprint?: Yes. A snake whose number is equal to or smaller than your length is green, and running into it adds its number to yours. Only bigger snakes, shown in red, end the run.
What happens when a saw hits my snake?: It cuts your body where the blade crosses it and you keep the part in front, so your length drops. If the blade catches your head, the run ends.
How do I reach the treasure chest?: Arrive at the finish long enough. Each of the five pillars needs more length than the last, and the chest beyond them needs a little over fifty. The chest lets you pick cash, gems or a new hat.
How do I steer?: Hold and drag on a touchscreen, or use the left and right arrow keys, or A and D, on a keyboard.