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Snap doubles the amount of cubes that are at stake for the match.

So normally a game is worth 1 cube and then it doubles to 2 cubes at the end of turn 6.

If you snap you're basically saying "I can win this game" so you're raising the stakes to be 2 cubes (which still doubles to turn 4 on turn 6).

If your opponent ALSO thinks they can win then they'll snap too which will raise the stakes to 4 cubes (which doubles to 8 at the end of the game).

If someone retreats before the end of turn 6 then the winner gets the current amount. But you can also leave after your opponent snaps to basically refuse raising the stakes. Then you get to escape with 1 cube instead of raising the stakes for the rest of the game.

You need 10 cubes to go up in rank so you're basically betting your rank on winning/losing.