The Surprising Features of a Fun Snippet
over 7 years ago – Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 11:10:41 AM

Hello Snippets fans!

This week has been incredible. With over 19 days to go, we're already more than 60% of the way to our goal! Thank you to everyone for supporting Snippets and The Master Theorem Games, and a special thank you to all you Snippets Hero backers! There have been a surprising number of large pledges, and I'm incredibly grateful for how much you believe in this project. Please be sure to keep sharing the Kickstarter campaign with anyone else you think may enjoy it!

A Behind the Scenes Peek

If you were to play a round of Snippets with the letters MAN, you and your friends might come up with words like MANATEE, SAMANTHA, or BROMANCE, and chances are you'd have a great time. But if you played a round with BMA, I'm guessing it wouldn't be too long before you'd want to throw the box at the wall.

With thousands upon thousands of 3-letter snippets in the English language, but only 250 snippet cards, you might be wondering how I've selected only the most "fun" ones to include with the game. The short answer: it was hard!

But having been playing this game informally with friends for over a decade now, I've gradually come up with a few theories on what makes a snippet "fun" versus wall-smashingly "not fun," and I've incorporated these often surprising rules into some custom snippets-generating software. 

Overall, the easier it is to think of words under pressure for a given snippet, the more fun it will be, so perhaps obviously, a major funness factor is the sheer number of words in English that a snippet appears in. But there's a lot more to it than that!

Want to find out more? Have your own thoughts on what might make a 3-letter sequence fun or not fun to play Snippets with? Comment on this update or email me at [email protected] with your ideas or suggestions for fun snippets and they may get included in the final version! 

 Let's Get the Word Out!

We're off to the races, but let's keep the momentum going! Here are some things you can do to help spread the word:

- Share the Kickstarter campaign or the Snippets homepage with your own friends!

- Visit Snippets' BoardGameGeek page and rate it, comment on it, or let the community know you preordered it!

- Like Snippets on Facebook and follow @snippetsthegame on Twitter!

- Upvote us on Reddit!

Thanks all! Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or comments.

- Shaun

Crabtacular!
over 7 years ago – Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 12:39:40 PM

Hello Snippets fans!

Thanks so much for your support! After only 3 days we're already nearly half way to our goal of bringing a fun, smart, and accessible word game to homes everywhere!

Snippets has been getting some great feedback from the community. Ed Baraf of Edo's Game Reviews raves that Snippets fits right alongside all the classics: "This isn't like, a gamer game... This is, like, universal, Target, games I grew up with, Scattergories, Charades, Boggle... its in that category."

And Nivi Engineer of GeekMom/GeekDad posted this picture of her family enjoying an early copy of Snippets, saying: "When the full version comes out, rest assured you’ll find it in my house!"

Despite our strong start, there's still a long way to go! Here are some things you can do to help us spread the word:

- Visit Snippets' BoardGameGeek page and rate it, comment on it, or let the community know you preordered it!

- Like Snippets on Facebook and follow @snippetsthegame on Twitter!

- Share the Kickstarter campaign or the Snippets homepage with your own friends!

- Upvote us on Reddit!

Thanks all! Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or comments.

- Shaun