Snaky Jam

The pitch

Snaky Jam is a colorful 3D sorting puzzle where every move makes room for the next. Select containers, place them in the available slots, and match their colors to the winding snake. Plan ahead as the boards grow trickier, work around frozen, locked, and burning containers, and use clever boosters to clear the jam. Simple tap controls and playful animations make each level easy to pick up and satisfying to solve.

Controls & how it runs

Click or tap a container to select it, then click or tap an available slot to place it. Match the container colors to the snake, clear its colored layers, and clear every snake to win the level. Keep space available and protect the rabbit: finish before a snake reaches the end of the path or the timer runs out. Use extra slots, freezing, hammers, keys, and cooling boosters when you need help. On desktop, use the left mouse button; on mobile, tap the screen. No keyboard controls are required. Open the gear menu to adjust music and sound.

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a flexible screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

• Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
• Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
• Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Snaky Jam — quick-fire questions

Does Snaky Jam cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Snaky Jam?

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Snaky Jam on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Snaky Jam is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.