Exploding Snap

Exploding Snap is a wizarding card game in which the cards spontaneously explode during games. The game is popular with Hogwarts students.

Versions

There are two variants of Exploding Snap. The first one, the "Classical" Game, is quite simple, however it requires some reflex. The rules are simple: when you see two identical pictures, hit the card with the top of your wand – one point is yours. The player with the most points wins the game. The hard part is, the cards shuffle faster and faster. The second one, the "Patience" Game, is a bit harder. You have twenty cards and you reveal them in pairs. You have to find two identical pictures. Cards explode soon after you reveal them for the first time if you don’t find a pair before they can.

Exploding Snap cards

• Bowtruckles
• Cyclops's
• Giant Squids
• Manticores
• Mountain Trolls
• Common Welsh Greens
• Hebridean Blacks
• Elfrida Claggs

At Absit Omen

• Figaro Sellaphix plays this game a lot.

"Oi! We should play snap," Figaro said suddenly, already reaching into his pocket for his well worn, and singed-around-the-edges deck of exploding snap cards. The game was Figaro's go-to. The rules were simple (until you added the house-rules variants), it was loud, and involved wands and hitting things. Hufflepuff even played with a special rule that allowed for 'checking' (no head shots, nothing below the belt). All previous Heads of House had forbidden the practice upon finding the students throwing elbows over cards, but as they say - what happens on the Hogwarts Express...

—Figaro Sellaphix

• Figaro's snap deck is pentagonal.

• Hufflepuff's Exploding Snap house rules include...
  • Blocking aka full contact is allowed.
  • Dragons are triple
  • Face cards are double