Fruit Snake

The snake winds through a grid and grows a segment longer with every piece of fruit it swallows. There is one rule: do not hit yourself. That sounds trivial until the tail is long enough to form a wall across the middle of the field.

This is a game where the player manufactures the difficulty personally. Every point scored is free space removed. Success and risk are literally the same quantity here, and no other genre states that relationship quite so plainly, which is a fair part of why it has survived for decades.

To last longer, stop chasing fruit in straight lines and get into the habit of circling near the outer edge. Keeping your body against the boundary leaves the centre open, so there is always room to turn back. Players who cut straight through the middle usually trap themselves within a few moves.