Objective
To win all the cards.

Suitability

• Ideal for children in the 4 to 14 age range.
• Great for grandparents to play with their grandchildren.
• Ideally, 3 to 6 players, although it can be played by 2 players.

Schedule a game

• Each player involved in the game will need to use a separate computer.
• One of the players schedules the game.
• They choose the start time for the game.
• They provide their email address.
• They provide the name they want to use in the game.
• For each additional player they extend the form by clicking the blue text 'Click here to add a player on another computer'.
• They provide an email address and a name for each player.
• They can use the built-in address book to remember the details of players who they have played with previously.
• When they have entered the details of all players, they click the 'SUBMIT' button.
• They are shown the 'line-up' for the game. They have the option to make corrections if they notice a mistake. Otherwise, they confirm the game to generate emails to the players involved in the game.

Set-up

• Near the appointed time of the game, each player clicks the link in the email to enter the game.
• Each player chooses the animal they want to be in the game, from the menu provided. Each player has to be a different animal.
• When all players have selected their animals, the game will start.

The playing board

• A pack of 52 animal cards is dealt out to the players. You are the player at the bottom of the board.
• Each players cards are in two piles, The left-hand pile is the cards that have been used, with the top card face up. This pile of cards is at risk of being lost. The right-hand pile are your unused cards, face down. A number above each pile of cards tells you how many cards are in the pile. Initially there are no cards in the left-hand pile.
• The animal that each player has chosen is printed below the players cards.
• In the centre of the board are 6 small square cards. These are initially face down. Each player will have a picture of their animal on the underside of one of these cards.

How to play

• On a players turn one of their cards is turned over and moved from their right-hand stack to their left-hand stack.
• On each turn the six cards in the centre are all turned over together.
• At the end of a turn the 6 cards are turned face down again.
• If your face up card matches another players faceup card (is a snap) then you have to click the card amongst the 6 middle cards showing the animal chosen by the player who owns the matching card
• Note the 6 cards in the centre are rearranged on each turn.
• If you are the first to make the snap, then you win the cards in the left-hand pile of the person with whom you made the snap, and all your cards are returned to your right-hand pile.
• You are eliminated from the game when you lose all your cards.
• The game continues until one player gains all the cards. They are the winner.