This is a first-rate game and very exciting. Any number of players may
take part in it, and the whole of the fifty-two cards are dealt out.
Each player has five counters, and there is a pool in the middle,
which is empty at the commencement of the game.
The first player plays a card--say it is a six--then the one next to
him looks through his cards, and if he has another six he puts it down
and says, "Snip"; the first player must then pay a counter into the
pool.
If the next player should chance to have another six, he plays it and
says "Snap," and the one who is snapped must pay in his turn, but the
fine is increased to two counters. Should the fourth player have the
fourth six, he plays it, and says, "Snorum," and the third player must
now pay; his fine is three counters to the pool. No person may play
out of his turn, and every one must "snip" when it is in his power.
When any one has paid the whole of his five counters to the pool he
retires from the game; the pool becomes the property of the one whose
counters last the longest.
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