how to play snatch
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SNATCH
Snatch is a fast-paced, livelier adaptation of Scrabble.
Played with Scrabble tiles, it is a group game.
Players sit in a circle and one of them takes out Scrabble tiles from a bag, one at a time, and keeps
placing them in the middle.
Tiles to beplaced here
A
AW
AW
Typically, there is a pre-decided limit to how short the words can be.
Here, let’s make words that have 4 letters or more.
N
AW
ND
WAND
AW
ND
WAND
The first to announce a validword gets to form it with
the tiles in the middle.
E
The process of taking tiles out of the bag and placing
them in the middle resumes.
E
WANED
E
WANED
One can make words bycombining the letters of a
word that has already beenmade and those in the middle.
RWARNED
WANDER
RWARNED
WANDERWhen two people call out words at the same time :a) The person with the
longer word gets to make itb) If lengths are equal, boththe words get banned for
the rest of the game
RS
RS
WANDERS
Whenever a word is banned,all words derived from it are
banned as well.
In this case, WANDERS,WANDERER, WANDERED etc.
are not allowed.
RS
P
RS
P
PAWNED
SPAWNED
R
The one with the longerword gets to make it.
R
O
R
O
S
R
O
S
E
R
O
S
E
ROSE
Words can be formed withoutbreaking existing words too.
P
P C
P C
CORPSE
One can update one’s own word and make a longer one.
PROSECUTE
PROSECUTE
PROSECUTE is not yet there.One more E is needed.
In such a case, the word wrongly called out gets
banned for the restof the game.
CORPSES
CORPSES
One cannot add letters to anexisting word and make a new
word with the same root.
CORPSES
CORPSE and CORPSES havethe same word root (corpse)and hence the latter doesn’t
count as a new word.
Similarly, a verb in differenttenses has the same word root.
eg. – One cannot break PLAYto make PLAYS/PLAYED/
PLAYING, or even PLAYER (noun) for that matter.
PROTECTS
And the game goes on…
Enjoyed learning about the game and want to play it live?Didn’t get the game fully and want to ask a few doubts?
In either case, come join us at the Coffee Shack for a game of Snatch.
Every Wednesday | 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Nescafé Shack (Next to SOM)
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