Everyone has heard of the classic arcade game ‘Snake’, in which the player tries to grow the size of their snake (a line of pixels) by eating food (pixels again!) while avoiding eating yourself or hitting the walls, and YouTube have made it into a subtle feature on its new updated player.

To play the game, you can simply press one of the directional buttons on your keyboard whilst your video is playing or paused (and ‘selected’ on the page), to begin the fun.

The ‘Easter Egg’ feature just one in a long series of similar stunts from Google was uncovered by users of the website last week. The exact date of the update is not certain, but it would have been fairly recent, as it only works on the new YouTube video player that was introduced in April. It doesn’t work with embeds, either, so a user must go to YouTube’s website to try it out.

Previously, Google put a button on YouTube videos that played a World Cup-style vuvuzela sound. Google’s no stranger to playable games on its websites, either; the logo on the Google home page became a playable game of ‘Pac-Man’ two months ago, supposedly costing American society more than $120M worth of productivity in the workplace.

It is unknown as to what effect this feature will have when it catches on to the general public, but it will surely be a popular one. Critics may well say that due to the quality of most Youtube videos, the snake game is more entertaining.

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