Starting Nibbles opens the main window shown below.

Figure 1 Nibbles Introduction Window

To start the game, select Game ▸ New Game.

When the game starts, the worm will come out of the left side of the screen. You use the up arrow to make the direction of the worm go up. Use the right arrow to turn the worm right, left arrow to turn the worm left, and down arrow to turn the worm down.

Figure 2 Nibbles During Gameplay

The menu bar, located at the top of the Main Window, contains the following menus:

Nibbles has numerous different diamonds to eat. They are each a different color and serve a different function. Only the pale purple diamond is guaranteed to be around long enough for you to eat it (in fact, you have to eat them to finish the level). The other diamonds are all bonuses, but they only stick around for a short time. We'll leave it up to you to discover just what the bonus each colour gives, but they all affect either the score, the length of the worm, or both. Be careful when going for these bonus diamonds, don't cut yourself off from the ordinary diamonds that you need to finish the level.

The Nibbles connection dialog is shown initially when starting a new network game. This dialog allows you to select a server to connect to, and the username that you will have while connected to that server.

It is possible to connect to a server with either a guest account or a normal registered account. Guest accounts allows you to anonymously login, while a normal login account allows you to reserve your own username which is protected by the password that you choose.

The Guest Login option should be selected if you want an anonymous guest account. If you want to create a new login account, then select the First-time Login option, with the username, password and email of your choice. If you have already created your account, you can connect by selecting the Normal Login option, and enter the username and password that you have chosen.

To connect to a server, click on the Connect button.

Figure 5 The Nibbles network connection dialog.

Once you have successfully connected to a server, you can choose which game room to join. To play a multiplayer game of Nibbles, select the Nibbles room. If you want to host your own game, then click on the Launch button. This creates a new table where other players can participate in a game against you. If there are any other games already started, then you can double-click on an existing game table to join it. The list of game tables on the right shows you the number of available seats, which means the number of players that can join the game table.

Figure 6 This Nibbles network dialog allows you to join a game room to find other players.

When creating a new table for Nibbles games, a preference dialog is displayed which allows you to customize the game, such as set the minimum number of players for the game. Once the total number of seats have been taken, then no more players are allowed to join that game table.

It is possible to chat with other players in network games. Ask for advice or help playing the games, but please be polite against other players.

Once you have successfully joined a game table, then you have to wait until enough players have joined the table. The Players List menu item allows you to see a list of the players who have joined the game. The game will begin immediately when the total number of players in the the game have been reached.

Multiplayer Nibbles games have pretty much the same rules as normal Nibbles games, except that you are now playing against human players. This means that other strategies might possibly be better than when playing against AI players.

Once a player has won, the game ends and you can return to the initial network game screen. Then you can play yet another game of addictive Nibbles multiplayer!