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In keeping with the "Rescue them 2 by 2" theme, I'd have thought Animal Snap be a video-game version of Concentration - the memory game where cards are turned over in twos to find pairs. Especially as the simple illustrations of the package are intended at children, so it was a surprise to find it was based on mah jong solitaire!
At least the 2 by 2 idea still stands, but for those not familiar with this tile game; tiles are arranged in a layered formation whereby matching pairs are to be removed, provided these are not covered by another tile and that they are free to move either left or right. Whilst this may sound simple to some, it not as straight-forward as it seems, as forward-thinking will be required. Being mah jong solitaire, I hung around like a bad smell and got stuck into the game. Use of music is minimal in Animal Snap, and whilst there is little that would pass for animation, it was not easy to tell whether a tile was stacked on top of another because of the view adopted, so not a great start. Animal Snap doesn't use a full tile set so to speak, but there are transparent tiles, as well as those that spell out BONUS in amongst the animal picture tiles - so that's spelling and bees covered for you!