• 19 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Snake

Tap a snake to copy every line of it; the first is looped around a sign you can type on.

ASCII Snake

.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. _ ( .--------------. ) (o)-< ) | YOUR WORDS | ( / / ( '--------------' )__/ / '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.____/Snake around a sign5 lines, 30 wideReady to copy

19 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 6

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 7

Large, 10 lines and up 2

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How it works

ASCII snake pieces drawn for this page: 19 originals, with a cobra, two rattlesnakes, a coil of three rings, a snake on a branch, one in a basket and one biting its tail.

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Slithery snake text art on one line

Three pieces are a single row. Slithery snake, one line is 24 characters in all, a wavy body ending in a head and a forked tongue; Snake in grass, one line peeks between tufts; Rattlesnake on one line starts with three brackets for the rattle.

Snake ASCII art with a sign

Snake around a sign loops a body around a board. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 14 with the padding, and keep the line the same length so the loop stays closed.

  • Every snake made of keyboard symbols here is printable ASCII; on most, a lowercase o is the eye.
  • Squash-proof has six pieces with no run of spaces, three of them taller than one line. Why spaces fold.
  • The snake as an emoji is on snake emoji.

Questions and answers

What is a snake biting its own tail called?

An ouroboros, which Wikipedia's article calls an ancient symbol of a dragon or snake that eats its own tail. Snake biting its own tail draws it as a thin ring, eight lines tall.

Which is the biggest snake here?

Two are ten lines tall: Cobra with its hood spread, seen from the front, and Snake wound around a staff. The widest is Beaded snake, two humps, 31 columns.

What is the rattle on a rattlesnake?

A series of hollow, interlocked segments at the tip of the tail, by Wikipedia's Rattlesnake article. Rattlesnake, rattle raised draws it as two number signs held up on the left.

Is there a snake with no spaces in it?

Six. Three are one line; the others are Squash-proof snake coil, Squash-proof diamond snake, two rows of slashes that make a diamond pattern, and Squash-proof cobra, four rows.

All 19 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Snake around a sign A snake looped around a board, its head lifted at the right. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 14 with the padding. 5 lines, 30 wide.

One line 3

  • Rattlesnake on one line Three brackets for the rattle, a wavy body and a head with its tongue out. 1 line, 22 wide.
  • Slithery snake, one line A wavy body of tildes, dashes and periods ending in a head with a forked tongue. 1 line, 24 wide.
  • Snake in grass, one line A head with two eyes and a forked tongue, with tufts of grass on both sides. 1 line, 20 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 6

  • Beaded snake, two humps A body built from pairs of parentheses, rising and falling twice before the head. 4 lines, 31 wide.
  • Snake in tall grass Tufts of grass along the ground with a snake's head and neck lifted above them. 4 lines, 28 wide.
  • Squash-proof cobra A hooded head, a neck and a coil on the ground, with no space in it. 4 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof diamond snake Two rows of slashes that make a body of diamonds, with a head and tongue at the end. 2 lines, 15 wide.
  • Squash-proof snake coil A head on two rings of coil, with no space in it. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Thin snake, four bends A thin body drawn in slashes with four humps and a round head. 3 lines, 26 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 7

  • Baby snake hatching A cracked egg with a small snake leaning out of the jagged top. 8 lines, 15 wide.
  • Rattlesnake, rattle raised Two rings of coil, the rattle held up on the left and the head lifted on the right. 7 lines, 23 wide.
  • Snake biting its own tail A thin snake bent into a ring, the head at the top closing on the tip of the tail. 8 lines, 19 wide.
  • Snake hanging off a branch A branch with three leaves and a snake hanging from it head down, tongue out. 9 lines, 26 wide.
  • Snake in a three-ring coil Three rings stacked widest at the bottom, the neck rising from the top one. 7 lines, 17 wide.
  • Snake in the shape of an S A thick body curving one way and then the other like the letter S, head at the top. 9 lines, 20 wide.
  • Snake rising from a basket A woven basket with a snake standing up out of it, facing left. 8 lines, 16 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 2

  • Cobra with its hood spread Seen from the front: a wide hood with two eyes and a forked tongue, on a neck rising from a coil. 10 lines, 19 wide.
  • Snake wound around a staff A straight staff with a knob on top and a snake winding up it in four turns. 10 lines, 13 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02, shown in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, game or brand is drawn. Drafts that did not read as their subject in the picture were redrawn or left out; the 19 kept are the page. Read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): the article Ouroboros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros) calls the ouroboros an ancient symbol of a dragon or snake that eats its own tail; the article Rattlesnake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattlesnake) says the rattle is a series of hollow, interlocked segments at the tip of the tail. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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