# Black Mamba. Starting cost — 495 SNK

Black Mamba is a cheap snake that allows players to try the game. Tokens eaten by a snake in the game arena increase the balance by an amount equal to one-fourth of the value of these tokens **(1 to 0.25)**.

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**How to raise a snake:**

Send at least 495 SNK to the smart contract and wait for the character to hatch. The egg hatching time is 24 hours.

**Snake properties:**

* The number of gaming sessions in the gaming arena (per day) is 3
* The time limit for each game session is 10 minutes
* Snake dies when TVL drops to 24.75 SNK

Black Mamba has a more difficult scale to increase the speed on the playing field. Therefore, it is more difficult to play, and a player needs to show more dexterity in order to avoid hitting an obstacle.

Also, the Black Mamba snake does not gain access to NFT artifacts and cannot be broken if its TVL is below 11001 SNK. To use an artifact, send it to another wallet, or sell it on a P2P marketplace, a player must either initially send at least 11,001 SNK to a smart contract, or replenish the character’s balance later.

For the first encounter within one game session, 5% of the TVL is deducted (but not less than 5% of the character's starting cost). With each subsequent collision, the penalty increases by 0.5% (5.5%, 6%, 6.5% ...) - and so on up to 10%. After the tenth collision, the penalty remains at 10% of TVL and no longer increases. At the end of the game, the scale is reset to zero, and the first collision in the next game session will again take away 5%.
