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Object:
The object of the
game is to collect the most cards by building snakes of all sizes.
How To Build A
Snake
Every snake
mid-section is a different color at each end. Each head and tail
card is on color. To build a snake, match a color on one card to a
color on another card. The cards don't have to line up squarely
but the colors must match. A whole snake includes one head, at
least one mid-section (but the more, the merrier) and one tail.
Set Up
Shuffle the snake
cards. Place the stack face down on the playing surface and fan
the cards out. Draw any one of the fanned cards and place it face
up in the middle of the playing area. This is the starter card.
Start Slithering!
The youngest player
starts first. She picks one card from anywhere in the card fan and
turns it face up. Do any of the card's colors match the starter
card? If so, place it next to the starter card with the matching
colors touching. See the snake start to take shape? If the
card doesn't match, lay it face up in the playing area to start a new
snake.
Play continues
clockwise, with each player drawing one card from anywhere in the fan
and either matching it to a "snake-under-construction" or starting a new
card if there is no color match.
For example:
The starter card is a blue & green mid-section. The first player
draws a green & yellow mid-section, so she places her card next to the
starter card, green-to-green.
The next player picks a purple head. Because none of the cards in
play are purple, he places the card face-up in a new location and starts
a new snake.
Wild Cards
The rainbow-colored
head and tail cards are wild. They can be placed next to any color
mid-section for a match.
Winning A Snake
If you can place a
head or tail card to complete a snake, you win that snake. Say "Hisss!"
and slide it in front of you. The snakes you win form your snake
pit. (Remember: a whole snake has one head, at least one
mid-section, and one tail.)
Combining Two
Snakes Into One
If you draw a
mid-section card and one of its colors matches one
snake-under-construction and its other color matches a different
snake-under-construction, you can use that card to combine them into one
gigantic snake! (You can only join two snakes-under-construction
with a newly drawn card.)
For example:
You draw a purple and red midsection. One snake-under-construction
has an open red end, another has an open purple end. Use your
purple and red card to join the two snakes.
Ending The Game
Keep playing until
all the cards in the fan have been drawn. Leave any unfinished
snakes in the middle. Now, count the cards in your snake pit.
The player with the most cards wins. In case of a tie, the player
with the longest snake wins.
Snake Tips
Snakes can get long
and twisty, so choose a large playing area. You might have to
change the position of some snakes-under-construction as they grow.
Snakes don't like to fall off table edges!
You can make a
snake longer from either end (as long as the colors match). But
you can only add to the open end of a head or tail.
In Hisss, the
longer the snake, the higher your score. If you draw a head or a
tail, and have a choice of completing two different snakes, complete the
longer one.
Running out of
space? Stack the cards in your snake pit, but keep each snake's
cards in a separate stack for scoring.
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