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.

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