Guide
How to play JellyWorms, the jelly worm game
Learn the actual JellyWorms controls, staged body growth, field-item roulette, and route choices used in browser and mobile matches.
Play JellyWorms
Start the browser snake-style worm game here, or open the official mobile listing if you prefer the app.
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Start with five body segments
A new worm begins with five body segments. Food raises the score, and score adds segments in stages. The first 100 points grow the body quickly; after 100, 500, and 2,000 points, each new segment needs more score than it did in the previous stage.
That staged curve is why the score can keep climbing while visible length arrives more slowly later in a run. Watch both the score and the space your current body occupies instead of expecting one new segment from every pickup.
Use the controls for your screen
On a desktop browser, steer with the arrow keys or WASD, hold Space to boost, press E to activate a stored power item, and use the mouse wheel or the minimap zoom control to change the camera view.
On a phone or tablet, one finger controls movement. Use the on-screen item button for a stored power item, and use a two-finger pinch or the zoom controls to change the camera view. A one-finger drag remains movement, not zoom.
Read the field-item roulette
Picking up a field item box starts a 1.5-second roulette. It can stop on speed, invincibility, a combined speed-and-invincibility power, a gold +100 coin, a silver +50 coin, or a black -50 coin.
Coins apply automatically when the roulette ends. Power items wait in the item slot until you activate them, then remain active for 6.5 seconds. Because a box can also reduce the score, collect one only when you have enough room to handle the result and the short wait.
Move with an exit lane
Small steering corrections are easier to recover from than a late turn inside a crowded lane. A longer worm also needs more room because its own body can close the route that looked open a moment earlier.
- Prefer a smaller food line with a visible exit over a dense cluster surrounded by moving bodies.
- Choose the escape direction before holding Space; boost shortens the time available to correct a bad line.
- After the body grows, leave a wider turning circle so the tail does not seal the route.
Log in before progress matters
Guest play is enough to test movement in the browser. Log in before ranked progress, saved records, inventory, purchases, rewards, friend features, or account controls matter, so those records stay connected to the same account.