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2014 · Arcade · Puzzle

Snap Attack

Wordament: Snap Attack is a brand-new, fast-paced, word-building tournament that challenges your brain in 2 1/2 minute rounds. Players from around the world compete on the same board, using the same clock, making as many snaps as possible. At the end of each round, a real-time leaderboard show how all participants ranked by score.

Released: 6 May 2014
Platforms: Android Windows iOS
Genres: Arcade Puzzle
Developers: —
Publishers: Xbox Game Studios
Perspective: Text
Themes: Educational
Country: United States

About

Snap Attack (or Wordament Snap Attack) was the second word puzzle game developed by You vs. the Internet and published by Microsoft Studios, the first of which was Wordament. 1 operating systems on May 6, 2014 as a free download from the respective app stores. The game was also available for iOS and Android devices.

The name Snap Attack was trademarked on April 3, 2014. In March 2018, it was announced that Snap Attack would be shut down as of May 18 of that year.

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Gameplay

Like Wordament, players simultaneously compete to get as many points as possible. The game is similar to the Scrabble board game where a board is given with fixed words and bonus tiles (letter and word multipliers) on the board, and seven movable tiles with letters on the "rack". Snap Attack's board is 8×7 squares, smaller than a traditional Scrabble board.

Points are earned by making "Snaps" - valid combinations of letters that form a word or words with the ones already found on the board. "Single-Snaps" are linear combinations of letters that form one word, while "Multi-Snaps" are combinations that form two or more words. Snaps are scored by first multiplying the value of tiles located on a letter multiplier, adding up the points of the tiles forming each valid word, multiplying the total points by any word multiplier crossed, and finally multiplying with a "number of tiles used" multiplier.