Snorta - Review

One look at the new game "Snorta" from Out of the Box (the fine folks who
brought us Apples to Apples) and you might think, "Oh, that's a kid's game."
However, as I watched a recent game between the "well beyond kid aged" (yes,
that's another way to say "old") managers of our Games by James stores, I
can safely tell you that it is not just a kid's game. While being a kid at
heart will certainly enhance your enjoyment of this zany card-flipping game,
everyone will find much to laugh about in this game of the year candidate.

The recipe for this game is as follows: funny plastic animals in a cloth
bag, a plastic barn for each animal, and a stack of high quality cards with
drawings of each of those animals. At the beginning of the game, you draw a
plastic animal at random from the bag and make the sound that animal makes.
Then, players receive a stack of cards that they try to get rid of during
the course of the game.

Game play is pretty simple: each player in turn flips over their top card
and if it matches another player's top card, the race is on to see who can
make their opponent's animal sound first. Oh, did I mention that the animals
now live in their barns so you can't see them? This adds a level of memory
to the game that makes it even more frustrating and even more enjoyable. The
player who makes the correct sound first hands the stack of played cards to
their opponent who places them on the bottom of their draw pile. Play
continues until one player gets rid of all their cards who is then crowned
King of the Farmyard.

Since the game also contains rules for playing with mixed age groups, kids
of all ages can play together making this an outstanding choice for that new
holiday family game. Although the game says it is for ages 8 and up, these
rules make it so kids as young as 5 can play and get in on this barnyard
mayhem.

While the game won't "mooove" you like a great movie, you won't have a
"baaad" time clucking around with Snorta! Easy to learn, fast to play and a
whole lot of fun, you will need a tractor to haul the bales of fun you will
have with this fantastic new game!