Snake Pit is a variant of Slime Trail. The game was probably invented by Bill Taylor (New Zealand) in the early 2000s. The game has a "leave-a-track" move mechanism akin to the sowing in mancala games. It is one of the few games that must be played by three persons. This, howver, can result in unfair coalitions. The game was described by João Neto on his web site "World of Abstract Games", but his English is rather poor and misleading (e.g. he calls any method to make a game fair "pie rule").