Value Snap

Slapjack , also known as Slaps is a simple card game, generally played among children. It can often be a child's first introduction to playing cards. The game is related to Egyptian Ratscrew and is also sometimes known as heart attack.

Gameplay

A 52-card deck is divided into face-down stacks as equally as possible between all players. One player removes the top card of his stack and places it face-up on the playing surface within reach of all players. The players take turns doing this in a clockwise manner until a Jack is placed on the pile. At this point, any and all players may attempt to slap the pile with the hand they used to place the card with to obtain it; whoever covers the stack with his hand first takes the pile, shuffles it, and adds it to the bottom of his stack. When a player has run out of cards, he has one more chance to slap a jack and get back in the game, but if he fails, he is out. Gameplay continues with hands of this sort until one player has acquired all of the cards.

Rules variations

• In Slapjack you can play up to 8 people.
• Players attempt to slap the pile as quickly as possible. The last person is forced to take the pile and the player to rid him of all his cards is the winner. As the name implies.

• To make the game more complicated, each player when placing their card down must recite ordinal value of the card placed down (relative to the present number of cards in play). For example, the first player in the round will say "one" as she puts down the first card of the round, the second player will put his card down and say "two". The card placed down does not refer to the actual value of the card. If the value of the nth card placed down does match its ordinal value (for example, if the third card put down is actually a three), all players must slap the pile. The last player to slap the pile will be forced to take the pile, usually because this variation follows the variation above. Rules for slapping Jacks still apply. This variation of the game is also called Heart Attack.

• Further complication can be added using the "1 up, 1 down" rule. Players count out loud as above, but this time players slap if the value of the card placed faced down is either one higher or one lower than the number that was said out loud. Slapping at the wrong time also causes the player to collect the cards on the pile. It is optional if players should also slap when the number said out loud and value of the card match. These first three rules are commonly used in China, and are what people refer to as snap.

• In Manatee Slapjack, the players must "slap" the Jack with their elbow, keeping their hand behind their back.

Game variations

Snap

A popular card game in which the object is to lose all the cards. Gameplay is related to Egyptian Ratscrew. The game is often one of the first card games to be taught to children and is often played with special packs of cards featuring popular children's characters from television programmes or recent films. For older children more complex packs exist, where the differences between cards are more subtle and penalties exist for falsely calling Snap .

The entire pack of cards is dealt out among the players in face-down stacks as equally as possible. Play proceeds with the players taking it in turns to remove a card from the top of their stack and place it face-up on a central pile. If two cards placed consecutively on the pile are identical (or, if a conventional pack of cards is used, are of the same number) then the first player to shout "Snap!" and place his hand on the top of the central pile does not need to take the cards. But the person that "snaps" the card last takes in all the cards. The player with the most cards loses.

Alternate rules

Upon two cards being placed consecutively on the pile that are identical, players have to touch or slightly slap their head before placing their hand on the top of the pile. Players who do not touch their head cannot claim the pile. If both players fail to touch their head then play continues. Players who touch their head pre-emptively lose the pile to the other player. Applying this rule often adds humor for both players and on-lookers. Alternate versions of the game include the player with most cards as the winner, and instead claiming cards by shouting snap.

Irish Snap

Irish Snap is a card game, whose objective is to lose cards as quickly as possible. As there is only one loser, forfeits can be made for the person with all the cards at the end.

Alternate rules

A pack of cards, excluding jokers is shuffled and dealt out equally to the players; none of whom are allowed to view any of the cards they have been given. Going around in turn, each player must place and reveal one of his cards in the middle of the table. While this is happening the number of a card is spoken. The number spoken is simply determined, starting from ace for the first card revealed, two for the second and three for the third etc. If the actual number of the card laid down matches the number just spoken, each player must slam the pack in the middle. The last one to do so must pick up the pack underneath their hands. They are the first to start the next round. This continues until all players bar one have lost their cards.

An alternate way of receiving all the cards is snapping when there is not actually any kind of matching pair; however, in order for this to come into effect the player must touch the deck in the middle. If they simply shout snap, or motion towards it, the game carries on as normal.

The game can also be continued so that even players who have lost all their cards still take part in the game. They will still say the next number after the previous person whilst not putting down a card. For example if person B has lost all their cards and player A puts down a 7 whilst saying the number 6, as soon as player B says 7 everyone slams for the pile. It is common for the person to dummy, in which case if he has not said the number the person who touches the pile incorrectly will pick up the pile.

An extra, optional, rule of Irish snap is that anything said, including the card number and snap must be done so in an Irish accent.

Trivia

• In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, Harry and his friends sometimes play a game called "Exploding Snap", in which (from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) some of the cards will explode at random during the game.
• In the Goon Show, Eccles will yell snap, sometimes during a poker game or while on the telephone.

See also

• One Card (card game)
• Snip Snap Snorem
• Egyptian Ratscrew

References

• Ostrow, Albert A (1945). The Complete Card Player . New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 71.

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