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1977 Ranked #21,008

Snit Smashing

A simultaneous-movement game has players race creatures to shelter, smash rival creatures, and return survivors to the sea. Each surviving creature reproduces between runs, so protecting a growing population is the path to victory.

Fantasy Hexagon Grid Dice Rolling Magazine: Dragon

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.53/5

Rating

5.58

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

A very simple game in which players compete to reproduce as many Snits as possible, while smashing the other players' Snits with the Bolotomus.

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A very simple game in which players compete to reproduce as many Snits as possible, while smashing the other players' Snits with the Bolotomus. Each player plays both a tribe (21 chits of his colour, of which 4 are randomly selected for each run) of Snits, emerging from the sea (one end of the map), racing (each counter is marked with a speed in hexes) to the cover of the Snandergrab (a big counter/tile covering 7 hexes), and a Bolotomus (a large bored creature represented only by the Smash! counter denoting the hexes where it hopes to crush Snits). Movement of Snits, and location on the Bolotomus' Smash! are secretly written down, and simultaneously revealed. Once under the Snandergrab (Snits who survive 9 game turns but didn't make it there are placed under anyway), Snits reproduce (3 more counters are added per survivor), and they all race back to the sea, imperiled by the Bolotomus again. A second reproductive run follows, then the winner is judged by the greatest number of surviving Snits. Published in The Dragon Magazine #10. Errata published in The Dragon Magazine #11. A revised version of the game was published in Snits!.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.5/5
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Designers

1
Tom Wham

Artists

1
Tom Wham

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Tactical Studies Rules (TSR)

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