From opening screen, choose Speed.

 

There are 5 speeds: from 'Very Slow' to 'Impossible'

 

From opening screen, choose Board.

 

There are 7 board to pick from

 

From the opeing screen, you can set Sound or Music

 

Both can be turned off or on separately

 

B : Change background

 

K : Change skin

 

P : From the game-over message, press P to start again (you can also click the message)

 

X : Mute the music (sounds will still play - both can be set from opening screen)

 

C : In the star-field background, it changes the direction of scrolling

 

M : Menu

 

Space-bar : Pause / unpause

 

The game is controlled by the cursor-keys or the WASD keys - both sets of keys are always available.

 

Controls can be Directinal or Steering. From Settings choose Control Type

 

Directional makes all four control keys active and snake moves in the direction of the key

 

Steering makes only left and right control keys active. The snake will turn counter-clockwise or clockwise with these keys. Think of it as 'steering' a car.

 

Directional controls makes all four control keys active and snake moves in the direction of the key.

 

Classic Snake comes with several themes

 

While playing the game, press space-bar to pause: the "Back" and "Skin" buttons will appear near the top

 

Click on these buttons to cycle thru the available theme / skin choices

 

You can also use the keyboard shortcuts K (sKin) and B (Background) at any time without even pausing the game

 

From opening screen, click the gears icon on the bottom left

 

This will open the settings screen which has more options

 

From Settings, Choose Initial Length

 

This setting is for Thin Snake only - it sets the initial length of the snake

 

A long initial snake will make the game more difficult more quickly

 

From Settings, Choose Number of Targets

 

Set this from one to many

 

The fewer the targets, the harder the game

 

From Settings, Choose "Snake is"

 

Fat makes the snake segments bigger and there is less area to move on the board

 

Thin makes the snake segments smaller and there is more area to move on the board

 

From Settings, Choose "On eating, grow snake by"

 

This sets how much the snake grows on eating each target. It can be 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10

 

e.g. if set to 5, the snake will grow by 5 each times it eats

 

The higher this setting, the faster the snake grows and the harder the game

 

High scores are mainted for each Board / Speed combination

 

If you change any of the settings, you might want to reset high scores

 

From Settings, click on Reset High Scores