The game comes with 5o heavy stock multi colored Cards.
7 Heads
7 Tails
36 Body parts
The object is to turn over a card and place it either starting, adding, or finishing a snake. The parts that make up a snake are the following 1 head, at least 1 body segment, and 1 tail. As you attach cards to each other end to end the colors need to match, all the cards are multicolored except for the head and tail. (one head and tail are wild and they actually are 6 different colors)
Other than that the only other hard rule at least for my three year old is waiting your turn.
The game ends when the last card is turned over and played. The winner is the player with the most pieces at the end, in case of a tie the one with the most snakes wins.
We have gotten snakes up to 28 cards long before completing them and it is really exciting for the kids as they wait hoping they are the ones to get the last needed piece and the huge windfall (kind of like adults when the lotto gets around 398 million). My 6 year old daughter almost always gets the long ones, second to her is great grandma Ruth who has had some pretty big ones herself. (Ok stop the snickering) The kid’s favorite part is to HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS loudly when they complete a snake and claim it as their own.
It is a game that always has takers at our family get together's, always goes to grandma’s house, and I never turn down a game unless I have a real reason to.
Games play fast rarely lasting more than 8 to 10 minutes.
If you have kids and want to help them get into gaming by teaching then turn taking, chance playing, counting, card placement, card movement, set collection and losing gracefully. Along with visual skills, logic, color identification and counting this is a great game to have in your collection.
Posted Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:40 am
