Overview
Hints for every level of Snakebird.
Hints
These are some ingenious puzzles, very satisfying to solve, and I found myself thinking of hints I could give to frustrated players. I aimed to make these helpful without spoiling the solution. Some levels have multiple hints – start with the first and read others as needed. If you need additional or better hints short of a solution (solutions are freely available online), just ask; I’ll do my best to provide. Also, these are geared toward the solution I discovered. Levels may have multiple solutions. In those cases, I can try to generalize my hints; just let me know.
General hints:
Many solutions become clear when a bird is pushed into the right position by another bird.
If a bird’s shape doesn’t work, try making the same shape backwards.
00 – The game helps you here.
01 – The game helps you here.
02 – Escape through trial and error.
03 – Don’t be too hungry! It’s all in the fall.
04 – Fall in the right shape.
05 – Eat the orange first.
06 – Get at the fruit from an unusual angle.
07 – Only one bird can help the other.
08 – Both birds will need to help each other, and not snake themselves into a corner.
09 – One bird will need a boost.
10 – There’s a way to get to the lower fruit first.
11 – Through trial and error, you’ll see one of the fruits will be a priority.
12 – Fall correctly to the lowest platform, and don’t overextend yourself.
13 – Elevation makes a big difference. You can reorient yourself at the top.
14 – The rightmost platform is important. Can you put a bird there but also allow it to come back?
15 – The birds will take two different routes.
16 – Big sibling saves the day. You can reorient yourself at the top.
17 – You need the short bird to be facing up and to drop down the hole.
To do this, you need the long bird in a shape that can support it.
The short bird will support the long bird in getting into the correct shape.
18 – The shorter bird does the bulk of the helping.
19 – Arrange the birds in way that they can each save themselves.
20 – The space underneath the chamber containing the cherries will be very important.
21 – Strawberry first.
Then orange. Take a path away from the orange then toward it.
22 – Experiment with lifting and pushing the box.
23 – This can be solved without pushing the tall box left or right.
24 – Requires some careful alternating bird moves.
25 – Help the blue bird up first, but it will need to help the green one before exiting.
26 – Create a self-propelled snakebird engine.
Red bird eats the fruit.
27 – Try using the longer bird as the “handle” rather than the short bird.
Get underneath the box.
28 – The bird who eats the fruit CAN escape the way it came, with some help.
29 – Make stairs.
30 – If you can teleport, you can reach the exit.
31 – Keep trying different poses!
32 – Block the teleporter.
33 – To get the second fruit, don’t teleport.
34 – There is only one right place for the block, and only one way to get it there and keep it there.
35 – Take the only possible shape that can get you to the second fruit without dying.
36 – One bird pushes the other into the teleporter.
37 – Circumvent the teleporter in two different ways.
38 – Use the empty space behind the teleporter.
39 – Make handholds.
40 – Move the boxes to the top. A bird can reorient itself at the top.
41 – You can overextend one bird as long as the other bird can push it back.
42 – The birds will each eat one fruit.
Before eating any fruit, make a strategic push.
43 – You can throw away the box once the bird is free.
44 – One bird will eat two fruits.
The fruits can be eaten in any order.
The short bird can block the teleporter.
45 – The long get longer.
Both boxes will be pushed down the hole from either side, not from the top.
*1 – Ride the suspended monorail!
*2 – Save one orange for last.
*3 – The clouds give you a hint.
*4 – Make stairs.
*5 – One bird will have to be nudged through the teleporter.
It’s possible to get the box down and also save the bird that catches it…
…using the box.
By this point, the birds should be able to teleport without help from each other.
But they will need each other’s help to both exit.
*6 – Arrange the boxes so that any bird can make it to the exit without help.
Hook the large box onto a high place.
Final – Always make sure the box has a bird under it.
Sometimes, two birds.
Try every configuration of laying the birds out backwards and forwards.