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Grandfather's Whiskers

By John Waddington Ltd

Grandfather's Whiskers

OVER ONE THOUSAND PICTURE COMBINATIONS

The different heads and different bodies can be laid together and in this way over one thousand humorous figure combinations are made possible.

A party of any number of children or grown ups can engage in competition to make the funniest figure.

HOW TO PLAY.
Any number of players from two upwards can play. The cards are dealt round in the usual manner, faces (pictures) downwards. The players must not look at the face side of their cards. The player oh-left of dealer leads and turns his or her top card face up in the centre of the table. Each player plays a card in turn Each successive card should be quickly played so that a "body" is fitted to the "Head" on the last card played. The title line "Grandfather's Whiskers" on the back of each card indicates the half containing a "body."

THE SIX JIG-TYPE PUZZLES

The backs of the cards comprise six different jig-type puzzles. The cards numbered from 1 to 8 constitute a quite simple puzzle, for the picture is formed merely by placing the cards in a certain order with their edges touching. In the second puzzle group (numbers 9 to 16) the cards overlap.
The remaining groups, numbers 17-24, 25-32, 33-40 and 41-48, become successively more difficult last group (41-48) in which Grandfather and his Whiskers are depicted, is the most advanced puzzle of the whole series.