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Derek Dunn
United States
Winchester
Massachusetts
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My 3 1/2 & 5 1/2 year olds both enjoy this game and since I'm hoping they turn into gamers like their Dad, I'm getting to play this a lot. My wife noticed that the rules state you can combine snakes-under-construction if you draw a tile that can be played so that one snake-under-construction attaches to one side of the tile and the other combines to the other side.
Question: Must the two snakes-under-construction that are connected complete a snake or can they result in just a longer snake-under-construction?
The example in the rules shows that they combined into a complete snake, but all the wording doesn't state either way.
Thanks,
Derek
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Joe Grundy
Australia
Sydney
NSW
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Interesting question.
We've been playing you can join snake segments even if it doesn't make a whole snake.
Generally I wouldn't read the surrounding circumstances of a specific example as asserting rules that weren't stated, so I wouldn't use the fact that the examples happen to make a whole snake as evidence of extra restrictive rules that it must happen like that. For example, they bother to state "(You can only join two snakes-under-construction with a newly drawn card.)" so I would assume they would have bothered to highlight that the result had to be a complete snake if that's what they meant.
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Derek Dunn
United States
Winchester
Massachusetts
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Hi Joe,
Thanks for your response. I totally agree that the example can't be used to state the segments must be a head and a tail.
How has it worked out for your combining any segments? It seems like you'd have fewer segments on the table for the endgame, which might be a good thing. Have you tried it the other way? Which way do you think would be best for keeping the kids engaged in the game?
Thanks again,
Derek
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Joe Grundy
Australia
Sydney
NSW
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Our play experience and considerations won't be typical. Hisss happens to employ the exact skill set that our two and a half year old daughter excels at. We haven't yet tried it with children in the recommended age group.
Here's our two review/session reports:
A promising game. But "having all the skills" is not necessarily enough...
A 2yo continues to get aquainted with Hisss
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Raymond Cameron
United States
Magnolia
Texas
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We also play that you can combine snakes without making a whole one. One of the questions I've not looked up yet is do you HAVE to. I would guess not. We kind of help each other saying.." hey you can combine that one here... " as long as it does not complete a snake.. Mu ha ha ha ha. "
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