Free snake game vs bots

How to start

1. Open bigboard.games on every device and tap Start a table on one of them.
2. The others join by themselves on the same Wi-Fi; elsewhere, scan the QR code or type the four-letter code.
3. Lay the devices edge to edge, screens up, as the drawing shows, and pick the game.

How the bots think

At every cell a bot weighs going on, left or right: how much room it would have, the nearest pellet or power-up, a rival's head that could take the same cell, and the closing border. A bigger snake's head is a threat to avoid; a smaller one is prey.

Now and then a bot looks only a few cells ahead, so it can be caught. Each is a snake like any player's in multiplayer snake, with its own name, colour and face, starting round the middle of the field.

Bots on your own screen

On your own, start a table on one phone or tablet and add bots. A phone holds two snakes, so one bot; a tablet holds four, so up to three bots, the same limits as 2 player snake on one screen. You steer with a swipe, or with a joystick when several people share the screen.

A round ends as soon as no human snake is left; it doesn't wait for the bots to finish. The round goes to the last snake in, or the longest when several bots are still going, and a bot that wins the match means every person at the table loses.

Bots at a table of friends

Across devices, bots fill the field up to twelve snakes: two friends on two phones and a pair of bots make a round of 4 player snake. They need no screen of their own: every device runs them inside the game, so they move exactly alike on every screen, each starting at its seat on the field's edge.

A bot placed on a device leaves with that device, and the rest play on. Bots also make a quick warm-up: add a few to a table of two and the field gets crowded fast.

With bots: questions and answers