YORKTON - Every time I sit down to pen a review on behalf of The Meeple Guild in the back of my mind is the game that might be one to make my personal top-five a year end.
It’s only a quarter of the way into the year, and I have to say there are already a half dozen games which are going to cause headaches come December as I try to decipher which will make the final five.
Which brings me to Rummy Snap from www.sdtoyz.com which will most certainly be one which vies for a top-five rating a year’s end.
Rummy Snap is a game which hit the table with little expectation, but it really ended up surprising in a most positive way.
The game plays two to four, and while it is likely a smidge better with three, or four, it plays nicely with two as well.
The game has rather straight forward rules – albeit it takes just a reread, or two, to completely grasp placement rules.
It helps of course that the game is based off rummy. There are 55 tiles, one for each card in a common deck of cards, and three wild cards – each with a special in-game ‘power’.
Each player draws a ‘hand’ of tiles – dependent on number of players – and from there you are playing to sets and runs to be the first to empty your hand. Others score ‘negative’ points based on what they have left not played. You can play over several hands.
The wilds are a cool element with Rummy Snap.
Of course they can be used as a common wild – any tile, but once on the table, it can be reclaimed by replacing it with the tile it stands in for. It can be a huge element of the game.
The component quality here is fine, with tiles which appear like they will last, trays to hold ‘your hand’ and a zippered bag to draw tiles from and to carry and store Rummy Snap.
The game is a highly social one, great for couples over coffee in the evening, and fits into the realm of games which include Rummikub, Kings Cribbage and Mexican Train, with Rummy Snap certainly as good.
This is one which we haven’t found a glitch in yet. There is luck of course, and you can make some multiple placements on a single turn by chaining what you do, so late hand heroics happen and that is a good thing of course.
All told, Rummy Snap is easy to recommend for almost every gamer.
