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📘 How to Play Snake vs Computer

You drive the green snake, the computer drives the orange one, and you are both after the same apple. The bot does not cheat: it moves at your speed, obeys the same rules and does not know where the apple is before you do — it sees it on screen, exactly as you do. The difference is how far ahead it thinks.

1. Choose a difficulty. On Easy the bot often turns at random and walls kill nobody; play your first game here.
2. Steer with the arrow keys, W A S D or the pad below the board; on a phone you can also swipe.
3. Whoever reaches the red apple first grows a ring and scores 10 points.
4. You lose if you hit your own tail, the bot's body, or (on Medium and Hard) a wall.
5. A longer bot is not faster but it is clumsier — it opens gaps on wide turns, watch for them.

🎯 What to expect at this age

Children aged 7-8 chase the apple and ignore the bot at first; Easy mode does not punish that. Around 9-10 they learn to treat the bot's body as a wall. At 11-12, Hard mode is a genuine opponent: at that level the bot works out dead ends in advance and tries to cut across the direction you are heading.

🏠 At home and in class

One of the first real strategy games a child can play alone: losing here is a decision, not luck. Asking "why did the bot go there?" builds the habit of reading an opponent's intent. With two children pick Snake Duel; with one, pick this.

💡 Tips

• The bot takes the shortest route; if you are closer to the apple, do not rush — block its path instead.
• A long bot is clumsy, not strong — use your own tail as a wall to corner it.
• On Easy walls do not kill, so you can leave one edge and reappear on the other to surprise it.