i don't know if anyone made a topic about this but..
it's a game they'd play, mentioned a few times throughout the series
I've been wondering about this..
Has JKR ever explained how they play Exploding Snap? I dont recall ever being informed about this game. She's mentioned the game in most books;
ex: in the CoS;
"They played Exploding Snap, set off the last of Fred and George's Filibuster Fireworks, and practiced disarming each other by magic."
(last chapter; 'Dobby's Reward"; pg. 250)
Does anyone know if JKR ever explained about this game? I might just be forgetting, but i'd still like to know. Or - does anyone know how they play this? _________________
OMG if i had felix felicis..
JKR has never mentioned how to play exploding Snap.
BUT... it could be a wizarding version of the card game, Snap, which is more popular in the UK, than the US.
Quote:
Snap
The pack of cards is dealt round, face downward, and each player packs his cards together, without looking at them, and then places them in front of him.
The first player then turns up the top card of his pack, the next does the same, and so on in turn; but, as soon as a player turns up a card corresponding in number to the one already lying, uncovered, on the table, one of the two to whom the cards belong cries, "Snap."
Whichever succeeds in saying it first takes, not only the snap card of the other player, but all the cards he has already turned up, and also those he has himself turned up. The cards he wins must be placed at the bottom of his own pack.
The one who succeeds in winning all the cards wins the game. It is necessary to be very attentive and very quick if you want to be successful at this game.
Okay... so basically, each player has a bunch of cards. They can't look at them, they just have to keep them in a pile face down.
Each player puts a crd down, face up. They keep doing so until both cards match. When this happens, teh first person who says "snap" first, wins the round. The winner then takes their pile of cards as well as their opponents pile. The person who wins all the cards first, wins.
It sounds like a cross between the card games War and Spit to me.
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^courtesy of Arabella
Last edited by GinnyX on November 14, 2007 1:19 pm; edited 1 time in total
hm i think you may be right GinnyX. "Snap" sounds like it is the right game, but JKR might have wrote it to be for the magical version, since she added the "Exploding". lol thanks
& yes, i, too hope she includes it in any encyclopedia she hopes on creating for us _________________
OMG if i had felix felicis..
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