Read the corridor before you tap

Every arrow points in a fixed direction. When you tap it, the head slides straight toward the edge of the board and the body follows along its own bends, like a snake. Only another arrow sitting in that straight corridor can block the exit.

Corners and long bodies do not cause extra collisions. The only question that matters is whether the head's straight path to the edge is currently occupied.

Open paths in a smart order

  1. Scan the board for arrows whose corridors are already clear.
  2. Remove those arrows first; each one that leaves also removes its body from other corridors.
  3. Re-check the arrows that were blocked — some of them are now free.
  4. Repeat until the board is empty and the level is complete.

Protect your three lives

Tapping a blocked arrow makes it flash red and costs one life. Losing all three ends the level. You can revive once per failed attempt to continue with one life, so it is worth pausing to re-read the board before spending your last lives.

Your completion time is recorded on the device after a win. Replaying a level with a better order can improve your best time in the records view.

A quick checklist before a risky tap

  • The straight path from the arrow's head to the board edge contains no other arrow.
  • You know which blocked arrows this removal will free next.
  • You have lives in reserve if the read turns out to be wrong.
  • You are not spending your final life on a guess you could verify first.

Sources & notes

Written by the app developer, with product and official references. This guide does not claim a new device benchmark or detection-accuracy experiment.

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