The weekly league

Every week
is a season.

Most Snake games hand you a high score and a shrug. This one puts you in a group of fifty real people, scores your week, and on Monday somebody goes up and somebody goes down.

How a week is scored

No grinding. Three good runs is a full week.

3

Your best three runs

Only your three highest scores of the week are added up, in the mode that ladder is for. A hundred bad runs will not move you. Three good ones will.

50

A group your size

You are never ranked against the whole world. You get a group of up to fifty, and friends are placed alongside you wherever possible.

7

Days, then it resets

The table locks every Monday. Promotions and relegations are applied, the slate wipes, and everyone starts the new week level.

Two games, two ladders

Classic is played upright, the way a phone sits in your hand. Retro is played wide, the shape the game had on the keypad phones it came from. They are scored separately, so a good week in one is nothing to do with the other.

Classic league

Tall board

The ranked mode the app opens on. Pure Snake, no pickups, no revives. Your best three Classic runs are your week.

Retro league

Wide board

A shorter, wider arena that fills up faster and speeds up sooner. Its own table, its own tier, its own promotion every Monday.

Six tiers to climb

Finish in the top fifth of your group and you go up. Finish in the bottom slice and you go down. Everyone starts in Bronze.

👑
Elite
The top of the game. Nowhere left to climb, everything to defend.
Nothing above
💎
Diamond
One good week from Elite, one bad week from Platinum.
Up and down
💠
Platinum
Where a casual week stops being enough.
Up and down
🥇
Gold
People here know the board. Combos start to decide it.
Up and down
🥈
Silver
Your first promotion lands you here. It gets real.
Up and down
🥉
Bronze
Where everyone starts. Three decent runs and you are already climbing.
You start here

What a week looks like

An example group, part way through a week. Green is going up, red is going down, and you are somewhere in the middle deciding whether to play one more run.

🥉 Bronze League
Group of 50 · resets Monday
2d 14h left
Promotion — top 10 of 50 go up to Silver
#1
🦖
Priya
4,820
#2
🐵
Marcus
4,510
#3
🦊
Aisha
4,190
···
#10
🐨
Dan last spot up
3,240
#11
🐺
Leah
3,180
···
#17
🐍
You 620 off promotion
2,640
···
#43
🐟
Sam safe
1,050
Relegation — bottom 7 drop out of Bronze
#44
🐢
Tom first spot down
980
···
#50
🐡
Chris
210
An illustration of the format, not live standings. Your real group fills with the people you are actually playing against.
The league is already running. Every player is in a real group right now, scored on their best three runs, with promotion and relegation every Monday. Live standings will appear on this page once there are enough players to make a table worth reading. Be in the first one →

You watch yourself climb

Pass someone and the game shows you the moment it happens.

  • Your plaque moves. It lifts out of the table, rides up over everyone you passed, and slams into your new place.
  • They find out too. Anyone you overtake is told that you passed them, so a week has a back and forth to it.
  • Finishing high pays. Placement banks Snake Points, which buy skins, trails, faces and arenas. Never anything that helps you score.
  • Nothing is buyable. Pro removes ads and unlocks cosmetics. It cannot buy a place, a point or a promotion.
Start in Bronze

Every score is checked

A ladder is only worth climbing if the people above you earned it.

Runs are replayed

Ranked runs are re-simulated on our server from your own inputs. If those moves do not produce that score, the run does not count.

No second chances in Classic

Revive Coins and ad continues work in Endless and Blitz. Ranked Classic stays pure: one life, one run, one score.

Same game for everyone

Free and Pro play an identical board. There is no paid speed, no paid layout and no paid extra life.

The table resets on Monday

Free, in your browser, no download. Three runs and you are in this week.

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