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ANIMAL GRAB
by
1) by Thomas De La Rue Ltd.
2) by The St. Michael's Juvenile Card Games
3) by H. P. Gibson & Sons Ltd
ANIMAL GRAB
Any number may play. The game is played with a pack of 52 cards. The cards being shuffled and cut, are dealt one at a time face downwards to each player in rotation, until the pack is exhausted. Each player must then arrange his cards in a pack in front of himself, keeping them face downwards.
The player to the dealer's left then turns up the top card of his pack towards the players, and places it face upwards on the table; the next player to the left does the same, and the rest follow in succession. Each card, as turned up, must be placed on top of the card previously turned.
When a card is turned up having the same animal as one already exposed, either of the two players owning these cards may make the cry of the animal depicted upon them; and the one who does so first, takes the whole of his opponents's turned cards and places them face downwards at the bottom of his unexposed pack. It is then his turn to lead; and the turning up of the cards proceeds as before.
Every player making a claim, but failing to give the correct cry of the animal represented has to place his pile of turned cards (with the card just exposed on the top) in the centre of the table as a pool, and the pool may consist of any number of separate piles contributed in this way.
The players the proceed to turn up the cards as before. Any one turning up a card similar to an exposed one in the pool should make the cry of the animal represented, together with the word “pool”.
Thus :- If a cat is depicted on any exposed card or cards, the player should say “'Mie-ow' – pool”.
He then has the right of taking the whole of that pile from the pool. After a player has exposed the whole o his stock of cards, he turns them over and plays them again. The game is won by the player who succeeds in grabbing the whole fifty -two cards.
CRIES OF THE ANIMALS REPRESENTED |
| CANARY Tweet-Tweet | DONKEY Hee-Haw |
| CAT Mie-ow | DUCK Quack-Quack |
| COCK Cock-a-Doodle-doo | FROG Crick-Crick |
| COW Moo-Moo | OWL Tu-whit Tu-who |
| CROW Caw-Caw | PIG Tig-Tig |
| DOG Bow-Wow | SHEEP Baa-Baa |
TURKEY Hobble-Gobble |
There are four of each animal, numbered 1 to 4
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