Snap Card Games

Who remembers playing snap?

Did you play it with an ordinary pack of cards ? Or did you have a pack of cards that was specifically for playing the game?

Why play snap?

Snap is a great game for adults to play with the young children. When grandma and grandpa play card games with the little ones they are creating memories that will be treasured for a long time.

Early primary school aged children love playing the game with their friends. Do you remember friends hitting your hand really hard when you yelled snap and grabbed the pile of cards?

Snap encourages the development of accurate observations and quick reactions.

It also encourages the development of social skills such as taking turns, not cheating and learning how to lose gracefully.

You can play snap with any sets of cards that have pairs.  (With playing cards, you will match the number, not the suits.)

How To Play

You need at least two people to play snap, but you can have as many as six people.

Any one can be the dealer of the cards. There is no great advantage in being the dealer. The dealer deals out the cards as evenly as possible.  The cards will be in piles in front of  each player. The cards will be face down. In that way nobody knows what is the next card that is coming.

As each player takes their turn, they turn over the top card and place it next to their pile. In that way you can see the face of the card.  However for the younger players, I would place the card between you. So everyone is sharing the stack of cards.

As soon as there are two face cards that are the same, you yell snap. We also used to slam your hand onto the pile. The first person to yell snap claims all the cards in that pile.

The aim of the game is to be left with all of the cards.

Online they seem to suggest thst the last to call snap is the person who collects the cards. As a consequence the person who gets rid of all of their cards first wins. But that is not the game that I am familiar with.

Bramblerose has variety of cards that you with which you can play snap. You can use the traditional playing cards. That would be suitable for older children. With the younger children, it is fun to play with the themed cards. Make sure that you choose a theme that they are interested in. It can be unicorns, cars, mermaids, jungle animals or pirates. Alternatively, you can choose colours, shape, art and/or museum snap cards. Usborne manufactures these cards. They are an English company. Bramblerose loves the pictures and the quality of the card that they are printed on.

Another game to play

An alternative game that can be played with these cards is concentration or memory.

It is a game that can be played by one person or more. Lay all of the cards face down in thirteen rows of four cards.

Then take turns to turn over two cards at a time. If they match, then place the matching cards near you. If they do not match, then turn the cards back over so that you do not see them any more. You finish the game when you have picked up all of the cards. The winner will be the person who has the most cards.