Modules

Win a Circuit Event and the board offers a reward: one or two ports, each holding a module. Drive into the one you want. Modules are never sold; you only get them by playing.

Ports (CHOOSE)

• Ports open after a won event (on Campaign levels that allow modules). One or two appear a short drive from your head, preferably on opposite sides of your heading, so it is a real fork.
• You have a few seconds to steer into one. Driving into a port takes its module; the other port disappears.
• What can be offered: PHASE unless you already carry one; SURGE always; CUT only when your body is long enough and you don't carry one.
• You carry at most one PHASE and one CUT at a time. The module you hold is shown on the right of the event bar.

PHASE

While you carry a PHASE, your next crash into a conductor does not end the run: the head hops over that one cell and lands on the far side.

• Works on any conductor: your body, pylons, live posts, bridge bars, wires and insulators. It hops exactly one cell, so the cell beyond must be free.
• Drive into the board edge instead and the PHASE takes you through it: you come back in on the opposite side, same row or column, for the same payout. The charge is spent on the edge, so if your body or a conductor sits where you come in, the run ends.
• A conductor with no free cell behind it still kills. One PHASE, one use: after it, walls kill again.
• The hop pays +50 points (× multiplier) and a solid charge boost — use it on purpose, not only as a spare life.

SURGE

About 8.1 s of overload:

Taking another SURGE while one runs adds its time on top.

CUT

The next node you eat after taking CUT severs the oldest part of your body.

• It removes 35% of the body, the oldest part (the tail end), but never leaves fewer than 6 cells.
• Every severed cell discharges into the meter: the longer the snake, the bigger the boost.
• It frees room on a crowded board; the price is less body to skim along.