👏 How to play Snap

Easy rules, to read aloud 🔊

1. Share out all the cards face down.
2. Take turns flipping your top card onto your own pile.
3. Look at everyone's piles.
4. If two top cards have the same number, shout Snap!
5. The first to shout takes both piles.
6. Get all the cards to win.

The full rules

1. Deal the whole deck face down, one card at a time, so everyone has a stack. Do not look at your cards.
2. Taking turns to the left, each player turns their top card face up onto their own pile beside their stack.
3. Turn each card away from you, so everyone sees it at the same moment.
4. When the top cards of any two face-up piles match in rank, like two nines, the first player to call "Snap!" wins both piles and puts them under their stack.
5. If two players call at the same time, put both piles together in the middle as a snap pool. When a top card next matches the pool's top card, the first to call "Snap pool!" wins it.
6. If you call Snap when nothing matches, your face-up pile goes into the middle pool.
7. When your stack runs out, turn your face-up pile over and keep going. You are out when you have no cards at all.

How to win: The player who wins every card is the champion. For a shorter game, stop at a set time and count cards.

Tips

• Watch every pile, not just your own.
• Call Snap with your voice, not your hands, so nobody gets bumped.

What it practises

matching numbers, paying attention, quick reactions.

Other ways to play

• One middle pile. Everyone plays onto one shared pile, and you call Snap when a card matches the card just under it.
• Menagerie. Each player picks an animal. When piles match, shout the animal of the player whose card made the match instead of Snap.