Snatch

Ref: BGWSNAT

No of Players: 2+
Age Range: 8+
Play Duration: 10+ minutes
Manufacturer: Portobello Games Ltd

Snatch is a great word game which takes 30 seconds to learn and you'll play it for the rest of your life.

Rules: Place the letters face down on a table. Take it in turns to turn pieces until a word of 3 or more letters can be made. If you see and say it first, put it in front of you. BEWARE. From now game has two sides: words are made from the middle or existing ones are snatched and changed by one letter. Thus your CAT may become his CART which could be her TRACK seconds later. Let battle commence!

This popular family game has received many dazzling reviews in the national press.

'Snatch' Review by Ben Rainbird, The Actor:
Snatch is an unusual, extremely straightforward and very portable & popular word game. The entire game comprises 100 letter tiles, packaged in a sturdy plastic tube with the rules printed down one side. Learning and remembering the rules is simplicity itself. I found that after a few games, Snatch quickly becomes second nature and gets very fast and competitive, and the way you score means you don’t have to pause the action to reach for a sheet of paper - all the points are totalled up at the end, so there’s no faffing around writing down your points while the other players liberally steal your letters! Once you’ve remembered all of Snatch’s ins and outs, which is a simple matter of a few minutes’ play, you could confidently leave the tube at home and carry it around in your pocket. As it can be played on any horizontal surface (there’s no board to carry around) and there’s no upper limit to the number of participants, Snatch is absolutely ideal as a family activity, especially for picnics or holidays. You really can play it anywhere, whether it’s on the dining table, at the beach or at the bottom of the sea... although on reflection I’m not sure whether the tiles are waterproof. I really enjoyed Snatch and it’s the ease of play and portability that leads me to believe this game might just end up being regarded as a classic. Snatch is quite simply good, old-fashioned, uncomplicated fun. It’s a game for anyone who’s averse to reading a hundred-page rulebook before being able to play, a game for anyone who’s ever wanted to steal their opponent’s tiles during a heated game of Scrabble, a game for... well, anyone really.

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