# What kind of game is Snood? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576 "2003-08-25T19:39:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/1 "2003-08-25T19:39:29Z")
My appologies if this has already been answered. I did a search and couldn’t find what I wanted. I have seen many people recommend the game Snood. But their website doesn’t really describe the game. Is it a puzzle game? And adventure game? Text based? RPG? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/2 "2003-08-25T19:50:57Z")
It’s a puzzle game that is more or less a rip-off of Bubble Bobble. You have to line up bubbles of the same color to make them disappear. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/3 "2003-08-25T19:57:57Z")
I always thought it was closer to Bust-a-Move. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/4 "2003-08-25T20:23:23Z")
It’s fun. I like it better than Bubble Bobble. Able to beat it on Evil level about 5% of the time now. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/5 "2003-08-25T21:22:08Z")
Howyadoin, I don’t know if this the case with all installations of Snood, but my nephew’s GF installed it on his computer and it brought the evil known as Gator to the party. For those who don’t know, Gator is some of the nastiest, hardest to remove spyware on the planet. If you’ve installed Snood, you might want to download Ad-Aware from [lavasoft.de](http://lavasoft.de) and make sure you aren’t being harvested like a denizen of the Matrix. -Rav ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/6 "2003-08-25T21:35:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*I always thought it was closer to Bust-a-Move. \*\* Indeed. _Bubble Bobble_ featured dinosaurs trapping enemies in bubbles shot from their mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/7 "2003-08-25T21:43:08Z")
Snood is one of the most insidious games of all time. As we speak I’m on level 27 of Puzzle, and I’ll never stop playing this game until I beat all 50 levels, consecutively. And the first game I thought of when I saw it for the first time was Bust-A-Move as well. ---
**Author:** ![apricot\_syrup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@apricot\_syrup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apricot_syrup)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/8 "2003-08-25T21:45:59Z")
Bust-a-Move is a ripoff of Snood, that features videogame characters Bub and Bob, who made their videogaming debut on the ancient arcade game Bubble Bobble. ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/9 "2003-08-25T21:59:09Z")
Snood is the addictive kind. It’s a Role playing game in my house. I’m a 37th level blue guy. My wife is a mere 12th level purple triangle head. ---
**Author:** ![Anniee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Anniee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniee)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/10 "2003-08-25T22:09:25Z")
Ahhh I love Bust-a-Move 🙂 But my favorite one of these has to be Super Puzzle Fighter II - Turbo! Unfortunately my son got so good at it he beats me every time, though at first I was the best. So a lot of the fun is gone now. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/11 "2003-08-25T22:49:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by apricot syrup \* > \*\*Bust-a-Move is a ripoff of Snood, that features videogame characters Bub and Bob, who made their videogaming debut on the ancient arcade game Bubble Bobble. \*\* Snood came first? I thought _we_ stole it from the Japanese, not them from us. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/12 "2003-08-26T00:23:06Z")
It’s crack, pure and simple. I had to delete it from my machine to keep from playing it constantly. I have a friend who had to do the samething because that was all he and his wife did when they had it on there. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/13 "2003-08-26T01:55:18Z")
I’m a snood addict, too. StG ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/14 "2003-08-26T02:09:49Z")
Bust-A-Move, under the name Puzzle Bobble (which shows its connection to Bubble Bobble) came first. I think they were up to about Bust-A-Move 4 or so by the time I first heard of Snood. Bust-A-Move is a better game, I think, though the differences are admittedly subtle. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/15 "2003-08-26T02:42:03Z")
For one thing, Snood is free. 😃 I’ve never played Snood, but I always have a lot of respect for free games. I don’t think it’s very telling to compare them to their market equivalents. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/16 "2003-08-26T03:39:43Z")
I definitely prefer Bust-A-Move. It has a timer, special blocks (wood chunks, rainbow bubbles, and magic disappearing blue sparkles), goofy characters, and it spouts Japanese phrases. Tatshi-da-hai-to. Taiiii-to! ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/17 "2003-08-26T03:43:16Z")
D’oh, how could I leave out the two things that really set BAM apart: chain reactions (in 2 player mode) and those damn annoying pulley levels. The storyline isn’t much to speak of, though: “GIVE ME ALL YOUR RAINBOW BUBBLES” “NO YOU CAN’T HAVE THEM” “OK THEN GET READY TO FIGHT” ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/18 "2003-08-26T03:52:58Z")
Hello, my name is Scarlett (“Hi, Scarlett!”), and I PAID for Snood. Crack is slightly less addictive. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/19 "2003-08-26T05:52:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Crack is slightly less addictive. And even that might be giving too much credit to crack. I’ve basically come to accept that Snood has taken my soul from me, and will remain in possession of it for all eternity. Bust-A-Move is better if only for that cool music. Da da da da _da_ da, do do do do _do_ do, da da da da _da_ da, do do _do_ do do do do do! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576/20 "2003-08-26T06:52:20Z")
At least Snood doesn’t give you lung cancer. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-game-is-snood/197576.md?page=2)