Card game of Snap (47 cards) published in England by Woolworths, England, 1950s

47 chromolithographed cards arranged in 12 sets of four (one Fisherman is missing), with blue instruction cards. The case and backs of the cards are printed in dark blue with a pattern of Ws (the Woolworth's logo). Each card shows a caricature of a known English trade or figure, each is named - Yeoman of the Guard, All the Winner (newspaper vendor), On Guard (Horseguards on parade), Any Coal To-day? (coalman), Golly Oh Golly!, A Cert (jockey), Road Up! (man drilling road), Jolly Jack Tar (sailor), Right Away (train conductor), The Arm of the Law! (policeman), Our Fishermen (trawler), Stop Me and Buy One! (bike ice cream vendor).

Mrs. M. Tomalin

The original golliwog was a central character in a series of books by Bertha and Florence Upton published between 1895 and 1909. Florence, the illustrator of the stories, based the golliwog on a doll she had acquired in the US in the 1880s. The appearance of this doll was influenced by the Blackface performance tradition. From the late 19th century until the 1960s, the golliwog flourished as a toy. Its image featured on toys, games, textiles and ceramics and was also used by food companies. From the 1970s the golliwog’s popularity began to wane as many British people felt that it promoted racial stereotypes.

Rules:
INSTRUCTION FOR PLAYING THE GAME SNAP
1. The game can be played by any number of persons.
2. The cards are dealt round until exhausted.
3. Each player places his cards on the table in front of him, face downwards (without having looked at his cards) and as his turn comes round turns up one card and places it before him face upwards.
4. When twocards of the same picture are turned up, the player who first calls Snap takes both cards and the cards covered by them. He places these beneath his main pack and commences again. If two players call Snap together, and it cannot be decided who was first, the disputed cards are put face upwards into the pool in the centre of the table. If a card is turned up the same as the top one of the pool, the call is Snap Pool.
5. Anyone who calls Snap in error is often penalised by having to put all his upturned cards in the pool.
6. When a player loses all his cards he is out of the game and the one who eventually holds all the cards is the winner.

The basic rules for the game of SNAP.

Like Happy Families, Snap cards are arranged in groups, usually two but may be more, but each card in a group bears the same picture.
The object of the game is to win all the cards.

One player deals out all the card, one at a time and face down. It does not matter if some players have one card more than others. Each player puts his cards in a pile face down in front of him and the players are not allowed to look at their cards.
The dealer or the player to his left turns over the top card of his pile, and the next player does likewise and so on around the players until any player sees that the cards on the top of any two face-up piles are the same.
The first player to shout SNAP when there are matching cards collects both of these and puts them face down on the bottom of his pile. Players now continue to turn the cards over as before, beginning with the player to the left of the last one to turn over.
SNAP POOL, if two players shout `snap' together, the matching cards are put face up in a pool in the centre. Players then continue to turn over cards, and the pool is won by the first player to shout Snap Pool when the twop card of any player's pile matches the top card in the pool.
When a player runs out of face down cards he simply turns over his face up cards when it is his next turn.
PENALTY, there are different rules for when a player calls `snap' in error:-
1. the player gives one card from his face down pile to each of the other players
2. the player's face down pile is put into the central pool to be won like an ordinary snap pool.

The game is generally played with forfeits, and the rules are simple enough for young children to enjoy playing. The cards are dealt equally among the players, face down and the dealer starts by turning over his or her top card to reveal an illustration. The next player to the left does likewise and, if that card matches the first, he or she `snaps' the first player, who pays a forfeit by giving up one counter.

Should the third player also have a similar card, he or she `snaps' the second player, who then has to pay a double forfeit by giving up two counters. The game continues until all the players but one have lost their forfeits and that remaining player is declared the winner. The game may be played without the forefeits.

EASY SNAP
This version is particularly suitable for very young children. Instead of having individual face up piles, each player plays his cards into a central face up pile. Players shout SNAP when the top two cards are of the same value.
SPEED SNAP
In this faster version of the game, players still turn their cards up one at a time but all players do so together.

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