
Like Wordament, each game runs 24 hours, meaning that players may enter the game in the middle of a round. The next round then automatically begins. At the end of a round, a selection of top-scoring valid Snaps are displayed, followed by the results of all players in each round. Players attempt to make as many high-scoring Snaps as they can find within a round, which lasts two and a half minutes. 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. "Single-Snaps" are linear combinations of letters that form one word, while "Multi-Snaps" are combinations that form two or more words. Points are earned by making "Snaps" - valid combinations of letters that form a word or words with the ones already found on the board. Snap Attack's board is 8×7 squares, smaller than a traditional Scrabble board.

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". Like Wordament, players simultaneously compete to get as many points as possible. There are also special, high-scoring rounds like "Digram" as seen here. An example of a Single-Snap is the word "fur" on the board, and a Multi-Snap are the words "cops", "es", "er" and "ar". In March 2018, it was announced that Snap Attack would be shut down as of May 18 of that year. The name Snap Attack was trademarked on April 3, 2014. The game was also available for iOS and Android devices.

The game was initially released for the Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 operating systems on as a free download from the respective app stores. the Internet and published by Microsoft Studios, the first of which was Wordament. Snap Attack (or Wordament Snap Attack) was the second word puzzle game developed by You vs.
