Snake Sort Game

Snake Sort Game is a puzzle about order rather than speed. A pile of coloured snakes lies knotted across a castle board, and every one of them wants out through the same narrow gap. Only one can go first, and working out which one is the entire exercise.

Pull the wrong snake and it wedges against the tail of another, and the board sits stuck until you undo the move. So the reading happens before the dragging: follow each body from head to tail, see whose route is actually clear, and move that one. Later boards stack the snakes so tightly that three or four moves have to be planned as one sequence, though nothing here is timed and the pieces slide as gently as they look.

How to play

Look at the board before you touch anything. Each snake leaves through the gap at the edge, so follow its body and check that nothing sits across the route it needs. Drag the one with a clear run, and the rest of the tangle loosens behind it. Tap a snake to select it, then pull it along the path you want it to take. A level ends when every snake is off the board, and there is no penalty for sitting and thinking first.

Controls

Tap a snake to pick it up, then drag or swipe to send it along its way - that is the whole control scheme. On a computer, hold the mouse button down on a snake and pull it in the direction you want it to travel; on a phone, one finger does exactly the same. Nothing here needs a keyboard.