Game Rules (2-4 players)

Setup

Empty board, 1 disc (snake head) in each player’s left corner grid point, 16 sticks (snake seg-ments) per player. For 4 players, use 12 sticks.
 

Up/down/left/right

Move your snake head 1 grid point in the direction (if not occupied by a snake segment) AND lay a segment behind.

Exception

You may move to the first or to the last grid point of an opponent’s snake and capture the head/segment, see Goal.
 

Left button

Take back the first segment of your snake and move your head backwards to the new first segment’s grid point.
 

Right button

Take back the last segment of your snake.
 

Goal

The first player to capture an opponent head wins. The game also ends if a player has no sticks left to place, in which case the player with the longest snake (most segments) wins.

In case of a tie, the player with the most captured segments wins.