The objective of this game is very simple: control your snake to go around getting numbers without bumping into walls or other players. It is very fun when there are multiple players. That is why the program allows up to 5 players on 5 different machines. To facilitate communication among players, there is a messaging service that broadcasts messages from any player to all other players.
To access it on Athena (at MIT), type:
For multiple players, type xnibbles [display 2] [display 3] .... & instead of xnibbles &. Please read the Help page of xnibbles for more details. For other AFS users, please cd to /afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/games and look for the appropriate bin directory.