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Collect cards. Clear hands. Watch your tail.

Steer your snake around the board and collect cards. Your goal is to clear as many hands as possible before your head hits your own body. Crossing an edge brings you out on the opposite side of the board.

Each card adds one temporary segment to your snake. Your hand holds five cards, or three in the three-card modes. Once it is full, each new card replaces the oldest one. Tap Clear Hand to clear a full hand—any full hand counts, even a high card or No Niu. Every cleared card earns one point.

Clearing removes the temporary segments and adds permanent ones. Your first clear adds one. After that, a hand that beats your strongest cleared hand this round adds one; an equal or weaker hand adds two. Stronger hands help control your snake’s growth. The longer the snake, the faster it moves.

Controls, pause, and settings

Choose integrated two-button controls or the traditional four-direction layout in Settings. You cannot turn directly back into your own body. Tap Pause to stop, then Resume when you’re ready. Card faces on the board and in your current hand are hidden while paused.

Settings also lets you choose your player name, interface language, card back, vibration strength, music and sound levels, and Standard or Large blocks for easier viewing.

Find your favorite game mode

Use the left and right spade buttons on the home screen to switch modes. Each mode uses its own hand rankings, as shown below.

• Texas Hold’em: a 52-card deck. A–2–3–4–5 is the lowest straight; 10–J–Q–K–A is the highest. Straights do not wrap around.
• Short Deck: a 36-card deck using 6 through Ace. A–6–7–8–9 is the lowest straight; 10–J–Q–K–A is the highest. Flushes beat full houses. Wildcards cannot become a 2, 3, 4, or 5.
• NiuNiu: Ace counts as 1; J, Q, and K count as 10. Find three cards whose total is a multiple of 10, then use the other two cards’ total to determine Niu 1–9 or NiuNiu. No valid group means No Niu. Ties use the highest card (K high, Ace low), then its suit: spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds. No Five Small, Five Face, bomb, or straight bonuses.
• All three-card modes: A–K–Q is the highest straight and A–2–3 is the lowest. K–A–2 is not a straight. Ace is high otherwise, and suits do not break ties. In ZhaJinHua, 2–3–5 does not beat three of a kind.

See How to Play inside the game for the rules of your selected mode.

Small card. Big possibilities.

With a full hand, a Wildcard automatically takes the legal card identity that makes your hand strongest. Its identity updates as you collect new cards, following the selected mode’s rules. It cannot duplicate another physical card in the hand or create five of a kind.

If the matching card is on the board, it lights up. Clearing the hand also clears that matching board card for an extra point. For example, clearing five hand cards and two matching board cards scores seven points. The Wildcard’s final identity is saved with the cleared hand.

You can leave a Wildcard on the board for later. Once collected, it follows the same oldest-card-out rule as other cards; if it leaves your hand, its linked board highlight disappears.

Three ways to save your tail

• Iceberg: freeze movement for five seconds when you need a breather to plan your next turn.
• Grass: cut your speed in half for ten seconds when things get hectic.
• Refresh Token: gain an extra Refresh use. Tap Refresh when you want a new selection of cards on the board.

Watch Next Special for the next power-up. Freeze and slowdown countdowns appear on the snake itself. Refresh is manual; the board does not periodically replace all its cards automatically.

Where are my records?

Open My Games or Personal Bests from the home screen. Records are stored locally and separately for each mode. If a list looks empty after changing modes, switch back to the mode you played. Rounds with zero play time are not recorded.

The game shows your strongest cleared hand this round, last round’s best hand, and your all-time best hand for the selected mode. An equally strong new hand replaces the older saved hand. There is no online leaderboard or account-based record sync.

Free rounds, Unlimited Play, and coffee

You get three free rounds per day on each device, shared across all modes. The allowance resets at midnight in the device’s time zone. A round belongs to the date on which it started; a round with zero play time does not use an allowance. A played round still counts if you exit it.

Open Settings → Unlock & Support to buy Unlimited Play. This one-time purchase unlocks unlimited rounds in all current modes and any modes added in the future. It is not a subscription.

Buy Me a Coffee is a separate, optional tip. It supports development but does not unlock Unlimited Play or add free rounds.

How do I restore a purchase or play offline?

Buying or restoring requires an internet connection. Sign in with the Apple Account used for the original purchase, then choose Restore Purchases in the purchase panel to restore Unlimited Play. Coffee tips are consumable purchases and do not restore an unlock.

Gameplay works offline. Once Unlimited Play is unlocked on your device, you can enjoy unlimited rounds offline. After reinstalling or moving to another device, connect to the internet and restore your purchase if the unlock is not available. Game records are local and are not restored by restoring purchases.

If a product or price is unavailable, check your connection and try again later. If you need help with a charge or refund, use Apple’s purchase support.

Why am I seeing a time conflict?

If you see a time-conflict alert, check your device’s Date & Time settings, preferably enable Set Automatically, then fully close and reopen the app. Play remains disabled for that app session until you restart. Game records continue to use your device’s displayed time.