Any number of players may take part. The game is played with a pack of cards, which, being shuffled and cut, are dealt one at a time face downwards to each player in rotation, until the pack is exhausted. Each player should then sort his cards and arrange them as near as possible in families. The dealer has the right of playing first, and if he has a complete family he lays them face downwards on the table in front of himself. He should then try and complete another family, by asking any player for any card he may require to complete a family. If the player asked has the card he is bound to give it up, but if he has not the card he answers "Not this time," and it becomes his turn to ask from any other player a card which he requires to complete one of his families. A player must not ask

for a card unless he has at least one of the same family. A player receiving the card he asks for, has the privilege of again asking for a card and keeps on doing so until he is refused by the player saying "Not this time." The game proceeds in this way until one player has completed all his families and has no card left, and he, "wins the game.

POOL JOVIAL FAMILIES,

RULES.

By each player contributing a certain number of counters to form a pool another way of playing the game is made. Proceed as in "Jovial Families" but as soon as a player completes a family, he places his cards face downwards in front of himself as a "trick." Proceed in this way until all the families are completed, when half the pool is given to the player who holds the largest number of tricks. he then has the right to ask any player for a whole family ; and if he does not hold it, the right of asking then passes to him. The game proceeds in this way until one of the players gets all the families into his own hand, and he takes the remaining half of the pool.

Patentee and Manufacturer, A. Collier, London
ESTABD. 1863