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Dev tools · November 1, 2019

Inspect This Snake

A hidden game for your web inspector

Inspect This Snake launched on November 1, 2019 with 79 votes, #464 of 3,203 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

a little web experiment that lets you play SNAKE in your browser's web inspector. wowee. i hope you enjoy it ! code available for the looky-loos: https://github.com/MatthewRayfield/inspect-this-snake

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