Snake Charmers Review

My cutesy observation about Snake Charmers is that games with simple rulesets are the hardest to explain. The game is basically Flip Cards: The Card Game—how exciting could that be?

For your flipping card money, though, this is one of the best in the biz—I’ve been enjoying the heck out of this quasi-social-deduction game in the vein of Cockroach Poker and Skull.

The flippening

To simplify the explanation, I’ll explain the game as if we had 4 players around the table. You shuffle a deck of 9 chunky “mask” cards, that are individually numbered 0-6 plus two cards that have snakes on them, dealing them out to the players at the table. One player will end up with 3 cards, making them the start player. Each player receives a double-sided door card with an open door on one side and closed on the other. In a common display, 6 cards numbered 1-6 sit.

Starting with the player with 3 cards, they choose another player and offer them a card. They can say (truthfully or as a liar) that it’s a number from 0-6 or a snake. They choose to refuse or take the card without looking at it. If they refuse, the offerer tries another of their 3 (not…

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