Snap

1866
(Uncredited)
BGG Geek Rating
5.3
based on 290 ratings
BGG Average Rating
3.6
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BGG Ranking
#29438
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Players
2-12
Weight
1.23/5.00
Playtime
10 min
Age
5+

⚙️ Game Mechanics

How this game works - core systems and player actions

Pattern Recognition Real-Time

📂 Categories

Novel-based Card Game Movies / TV / Radio theme Children's Game Novel-based

🎨 Artists

A. E. Kennedy Althea Braithwaite Andy J. Pizza Arthur Rackham Axel Scheffler Beatrix Potter E. H. Shepard Edward Lear Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek Gregory Robinson Jane Launchbury Kevin Hawkes Maggie Bateson Marcia Lane Max Pollock Palmer Cox Racey Helps Richard Doyle Roger Hargreaves Sir John Tenniel Sophie Miller Tetsuo Kushii Willy Mayrl

🏢 Publishers

A Collier Abbatt Toys Ariel Productions Ltd Arrow Games Ltd Briarpatch Brooke Bond / PG Tips C.W. Faulkner & Co Cardinal Cartamundi Chad Valley Co Ltd. Chiefton Products Ltd. Child's Play (International) Ltd Clifford Toys Contender Entertainment Group Cow & Gate De La Rue Dinosaur Publications Dorling Kindersley (DK) Dübreq Early Learning Centre eeBoo English and Scottish Joint Cooperative Wholesale Society F. W. Woolworth Company Falcon Games (I) First Great Western Fleetway Publications Flutter-Met Ford Motor Company Limited Förlaget Rebus Gibsons Gift Wishes Ginger Fox Ltd. Globe Series of Games Green Board Game Co. Greta Games H. P. Gibson & Sons Happy House Hazel Mill Toys Ltd Heinz Henbrandt Limited HiT entertainment John Adams (IDEAL) John Jaques of London John Player & Sons Johnson Brothers Jos. Scholz Joshua Morris Publishing Jumbo Kardonia Ltd Kay Kellogg's Lilley & Skinner Ltd Marks & Spencer McDonald's Corporation McLoughlin Brothers Medallion Press Michael Stanfield Milton Bradley Mini/BMW Missionsbuchhandlung Herrnhut Mulder Multum in Parvo Co Music Games Nestlé Norvic Mill Orchard Toys Otto Maier Verlag Oxfam Paperchase Parker Brothers Patterson Blick Paul Lamond Games Ltd Peachy Products Pepys (Castell Brothers) Petit Collage Piatnik (Public Domain) Ravensburger Robert Ross & Co. Roberts Brothers Games Russell Manufacturing Company Russimco Games Scholastic Inc. Shamrock Gift Company Singapore Airlines Southern Cross Spear's Games Squirrel Publishing Stena Line Tesco The Royal Academy of Arts The South Wales Electricity Board The St. Michael's Juvenile Card Games Tower Press (Unknown) Usborne Vivid Imaginations W. H. Cornelius Ltd. Waddingtons Waddy Production Western Publishing Company Whitman WHSmith Wild & Wolf Willens

📖 About This Game

Published in 1905 by Milton Bradley (catalog #4384). Game is played with a deck of 40 color lithographed cards depicting various comical scenes. The object of the game is to "capture" all of the cards, this is done in the following manner. 1. Deal the cards equally among the different players, keeping them face down. 2. The player at the left of the dealer begins the game by taking off the first card of his pack, and placing it on the table face up, and the play continues to the left until each player in turn turns up the first card of his pack in the same manner. 3. When any player sees two cards which are alike turned up on the table, he may call out "SNAP", and the one first calling takes all the turned up cards in both places where the duplicate cards appear. 4. The successful player takes all cards won and places them face downwards under his original pack and must then play his first card upon the table. 5. The game continues as above until one player secures the entire pack, thereby winning the game.