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In Coil Snake Arena a snake whose head touches another snake's body is out and breaks into a trail of large dots, so you get in front of a rival and let it run into you. When two heads meet the longer snake survives and a tie takes out both, and the red edge of the arena is fatal too. In Dropolis Hole a clearly bigger hole swallows a smaller one: if a rival swallows you the run ends, and arrows at the screen edge show where the rivals are. In Bocage Land Grab the danger is your own open line: if any marker touches it, or you run into it yourself, you lose every field you hold and come back after two and a half seconds on a fresh plot, so the round goes on.

Coil Snake Arena follows the mouse, turns toward your finger when you drag anywhere on a phone, or steers with the left and right arrows or A and D; holding the mouse button, Space or the up arrow boosts at the cost of length. Dropolis Hole steers like a joystick: drag anywhere on the screen, or use WASD or the arrow keys. Bocage Land Grab turns your marker toward the mouse pointer, steers with the arrow keys or WASD, or follows a finger slid anywhere on a phone and keeps going when you lift it; Space or the Root button plants a root.

Coil Snake Arena has 18 missions from a first kill to length 2000, and growing to length 150 opens hard mode, where every rival hunts you. Dropolis Hole grows the hole through 10 size steps, and finishing a round in first place opens hard mode, with faster rivals that pick their food better. Bocage Land Grab has seven arenas of four stages each, 28 stages in all, with brooks and bridges, orchard trees, fast droves, ice, mist and windmill sails, and a round is won by holding the most land when the clock runs out or by reaching the stage's share of the map first. Every 150 squares you claim grow a root, up to three, and Root turns your open line into land on the spot. Clearing the first arena opens hard mode, with two more rivals and roots that grow at half speed, and each stage has three star goals such as one claim of 5 percent of the map or cutting two rivals in one round.

The rivals are not alike: some snakes in Coil Snake Arena hunt you, some run from anything bigger, some graze and some go for the dots a crashed snake leaves, and Bocage Land Grab has six rival personalities, from one that makes small careful loops off its own edge to one that hunts open lines. Bocage Land Grab is also the only one of the three with Play with a friend: two to six people share one arena, the game's rivals fill the field, and a rival takes over a seat if someone leaves. Coil Snake Arena and Dropolis Hole are played alone against computer rivals.