Snip Snap Snorum is a traditional round game for four to eight players using a standard 52-card pack, in which each player tries to be the first to get rid of all their cards. Pagat describes the original form as a stops game related to Newmarket and Michigan, where cards are played in ascending sequence in suit, with each sequence limited to five cards and each card announced with a call: snip, snap, snorum, high cockalorum and jingo. A second version, favoured by more recent writers, has players play cards of equal rank instead. The game is recorded in British and German sources, and the German name was Schnipp-Schnapp-Schnurr-Burr-Basilorum. Pagat suggests that the habit of calling out the words when matching cards are played may have given rise to the children game Snap. Variants include Earl of Coventry and Nobble.
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Traditional round game for 4-8 players
Players, cards and deal
The game is suitable for 4 to 8 players, each playing for themselves.
Region line, Britain
Region: Britain
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players try to get rid of their cards by playing them in ascending sequences of up to 5 cards in suit
Players, cards and deal, first sentence
The game is suitable for 4 to 8 players, each playing for themselves.
Players, cards and deal, upper range of 8 players
Traditional round game for 4-8 players
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