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article: Irish Snap · changes
diff --git a/src/card-games/irish-snap.md b/src/card-games/irish-snap.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70f9c6b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/card-games/irish-snap.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Irish Snap + +Taught to me by Naomi and Mal in Prague June 2024. + +Deal out the entire deck of cards to all players. +Players take turns to place a card face up in the middle of the table. +When placing their card players say the next sequential rank, regardless of the card they are placing. +If the card placed matches the rank called players race to place their hands on the pile. +This is called a snap and the last player to place their hand on the pile of cards takes the entire pile. +Snaps also happen when two cards of the same rank are placed in a row and whenever a queen is placed. +The winner is the first player to get rid of all their cards. + +# Similarties to Egyptian Rat Screw + +This game is a lot like [Egyptian Rat Screw](./egyptian-rat-screw.md) except players aim to rid themselves of all their cards. +Instead of a reward for quick action, as in ERS, players are penalized for being slow to react. +Needing to have all players with their hands on the stack lends to a certain amount of synchronization in the game which slows down the pace compared to the frenzied slapping in ERS. + +Although I have not seen it played this way I imagine that additional matching rules could be added to the game as in ERS, +and that doing so might introduce a need for penalties to discourage players from covering up valid snaps. +For example perhaps a penalty in which a player who “snaps” with a card in hand must take the pile.