Snap Dragon, The Table Game that Needed to Die Out

Tired of silly board games and family fights that arise playing Uno at the holidays?
Have you heard of Snapdragon?
No one is completely clear on the emergence of this very popular parlor game.
We know it was the cause of numerous second and third degree burns during the Elizabethan period of England . . .
By the nineteenth century it was a time-honored holiday tradition.