HAPPY FAMILIES

1.—Any number can play. The players are seated round the table and the cards are dealt one at a time to the players in rotation face downwards until the cards are exhausted.

2.—Each player should then take up his cards and arrange them as near as possible in Families.

3.—The player to the dealer's left starts the Game and if he holds a complete family he places them face downwards on the table in front of himself. He should then try to complete another family by asking one of the players for any card he requires to complete his set. If the player asked has not the card, he says " Not at home " and the turn for asking passes to him, and so on round the table. A player obtaining from another the card asked for has the privilege of asking for another card from any other player until he receives the reply " Not at Home." A player cannot ask for a card unless be has one of the same family in his hand: any player holding the card asked for must deliver it up. The Game proceeds in this manner until all the families are completed, when the player who holds the greatest number of families wins the Game.

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The game can also be played by each player contributing three or more counters to form a pool. The Game is played as above, and as soon as a family is completed the player places it face downwards in front of himself and it forms a "trick." The player who makes most tricks takes half the pool; he then proceeds to ask any other player for a whole family, and if the player asked does not hold it the right of asking passes to him. The Game proceeds in this manner until one of the players gets all the families, when he takes the remaining half of the pool and wins the Game.

" Glevum " Games
Made in England