Snake is a small game you can play in CoVet while you wait or whenever you need a short break. Your scores are saved to your account, so your personal best follows you across devices, and you can compare high scores with your teammates.
Playing Snake never slows down or changes your records, handouts, or navigation, and no patient or case data is saved with your scores.
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Open Snake
Watch this short video to see Snake in action.
You can play Snake in two places:
Where | How |
Just for fun | Open a case, open the Just for fun panel, and select Play Snake. Snake opens in a side panel on desktop and a sheet on mobile. Closing it leaves you on the same case. |
While content loads | When CoVet is generating content, preparing a handout, or answering Consult CoVet, select Play Snake while you wait. Click or tap the board to start. |
How to play
Select Play Snake, or click or tap anywhere on the board, to start.
Steer the snake to collect food. Each piece of food is one point.
The game ends when the snake runs into itself. If you fill the whole board, the message You filled the board! appears.
Select Pause to pause. Click or tap the board, or select Resume, to continue the same game.
When the game is over, click or tap the board, or select Play again, to start a new game.
The snake can't reverse straight into itself, and the game pauses by itself when CoVet moves to the background. Your score shows live under the board, next to the Play Snake button. Below it, Personal best shows your highest score, and Last game shows your most recent score once you have played.
Controls
Device | How to steer |
Phone or tablet | Swipe on the board. Swiping the board does not scroll the page behind it. |
Computer | Use the arrow keys. |
Tip: If the arrow keys do nothing, click the board once to give it focus.
Scores and team high scores
Games in the Just for fun panel and games played while content loads count toward the same personal best.
Personal best: your highest score. It never goes down.
Last game: the score of your most recent game.
High scores: the list under the board shows your teammates' personal bests. Your own row is marked (You). Until anyone has played, it reads No scores yet. Select the refresh icon next to the team selector to reload the list.
Choose which team to compare
Open the team selector next to High scores. It starts on All teams.
Choose All teams to see everyone from your teams, with each person listed once. Or choose a single team.
Select View all to also show teammates who have a score of zero or have never played. Select Show less to go back.
Players with the same score share the same rank. Teammates who have never played show a dash instead of a score and rank.
Only current team members appear. Pending invitations and removed members are not shown.
If you aren't in a team, you can still play and keep your personal scores.
When your score can't save
Saving never interrupts your game. CoVet shows the state of your score below the board:
Message | What it means |
Saving… | Your score is being saved. |
Waiting to sync. | Your score is kept on your device and will save when you are back online. It saves once, even if you restart CoVet. |
Couldn't save score. | The save failed. Try again to retry it. |
Couldn't load scores. / Scores unavailable. | The high scores list could not load. You can keep playing. |
A score always stays with the account that played the game, even if you switch accounts on the same device.
Need help?
If you have questions about Snake, contact us at [email protected].