PEAK8
COIL3
SCORE0
ON BOARD0
MERGES0
SPEED1
COIL
Your body is a number line, and merging is how you stay alive.
Everything you eat joins the back of the coil. Each segment keeps the number it arrived with, and the coil never reorders itself — the only thing you control is what you eat and in what order.
Two equal numbers side by side collapse into one. The pair becomes a single doubled segment, the coil gets shorter by one, and everything behind slides up — which can land another pair together and set the whole thing off in a cascade.
Eat the wrong number and it stays there forever. A small value between two big ones is a scar: the two either side can never meet again, and you carry that length for the rest of the run. The strip beside the board underlines them.
The board keeps filling. New numbers arrive whether you are hungry or not, and the only way one leaves is through you. Eat too little and there is nowhere left to steer that does not feed you something you did not want.
What spawns follows what you have built — small numbers stop appearing once you have outgrown them, so an early scar is a scar for good. A rare ◇ WILD is the way out: it dissolves your worst scar and lets the two sides meet.
Get a single segment to 2048. Hit a wall or your own body and the run is over.