Happy Families Card Game

4/14/2022by admin

Product Code: 85560. Jaques Happy Families playing cards consist of a pack of high quality matte laminated cards with the original designs lovingly recreated for your playing pleasure. Happy Families was invented by Jaques in the 1880's and consist of a set of playing cards featuring illustrations of fictional families of four. Happy Families is one of the most popular card games ever devised, and it comes in many different guises. In all cases they offer the same benefits for early learners for developing matching and pairing skills, communication and social etiquette. Jul 07, 2020 Happy Families, C.1950 – The World Of Playing Cards Happy Families Card Game Printable Using these totally free, printable cards it is possible to deliver a family member or friend a greeting card without paying the absurd volume for a paper card at the store, or spend the time standing in collection to look into. The record-breaking card game “Happy Families” reaches new heights of fun in this unique edition that’s for families named EVANS.Extensively personalized for exclusively for families named EVANS, this is a. As soon as a player collects a book of 4 (6) cards of the same family, he must say “happy family”. The cards must be shown and then placed face down. The game continues until either someone has no cards left in hands or the stock runs out. The winner is the player who then has the most families.

Happy Families
Two cards from an 1880s edition of Jaques's Happy Families
Alternative names	Quartett, Ablegspiel
Type	Matching
Players	3–4 (2–8)
Age range	3+^[1]
Cards	various
Deck	Proprietary or standard cards
Play	Clockwise
Easy to play

Happy Families is a traditional British card game usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. The object of the game is to collect complete families, and the game is similar to Go Fish.

In Germany and Austria, the game is known as Quartett or Ablegspiel (in Upper Austria and Styria) and is not restricted to sets of four people, but covers other topics such as farm animals or tractors. The game can also be adapted for use with an ordinary set of playing cards.

Gameplay[edit]

A 'family' from a set of old German Quartett cards. Each card lists the three others that it groups with.

The player whose turn it is asks another player for a specific card. If the asked player has the card, he gives it to the requester and the requester can then ask any player for another card. If the asked player does not have the card, it becomes his turn and he asks another player for a specific card. Play continues in this way until no families are separated among different players. The player with the most cards wins.

One of the rules states that a player cannot ask for a certain card to deceive any player if he does not have a card in the set he is asking for.^[2]

Development[edit]

The game was devised by John Jaques Jr. who is also credited with popularizing tiddlywinks, ludo and snakes and ladders, and first published before the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cards following Jaques's original designs, with grotesque illustrations possibly by Sir John Tenniel^[3] (there was no official credit), are still being made.

Family members[edit]

The names of the family members are structured as follows, where X stands for a surname and Y for an occupation.

Mr X the Y
Mrs X the Y's Wife
Master X the Y's Son
Miss X the Y's Daughter

The eleven families in Jaques' original edition were:^[4]

Block, the Barber
Bones, the Butcher
Bun, the Baker
Bung, the Brewer
Chip, the Carpenter
Dip, the Dyer
Dose, the Doctor
Grits, the Grocer
Pots, the Painter
Soot, the Sweep
Tape, the Tailor

In popular culture[edit]

The Happy Families children's storybooks, written by Allan Ahlberg, are titled in a similar way to the names of characters in this game. In 1989 and 1990, Children's BBC aired a children's TV series based on the series of books.