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+# Snake Cli
+
+A Snake game for the terminal.
+
+
+## Description
+
+An excuse to write more rust and learn about writing cli apps.
+
+## Running
+
+Prerequsites
+ - `cargo`
+
+Steps
+1. Clone the repo
+2. `cd snake-cli`
+3. `cargo run`
+