Meet Pool Worm

Pool Worm is a snake game wearing a pool hall. You steer a worm made of billiard balls across the felt. Cue balls are food. The 8-ball is the thing you do not want to meet.

The table has rails. Bounce off them on purpose. A panicked turn into the cushion is how most runs end, right after a greedy line toward a cue ball.

How a run goes

You start short, so the table feels huge. Each cue ball adds a segment and the worm starts to fill the felt. Leave yourself a lane back to open cloth. Trapping your own tail against a rail is the late-game mistake.

The 8-ball moves through the same space you want. Treat it like a moving wall. If a cue ball sits just past it, let that ball go and take the next one.

A good first minute

Sweep the near side of the table before you cross the middle. Short turns keep the body of the worm predictable. Once you are long, wide arcs are safer than sharp cuts, because the tail follows the exact path the head just took.