ANGLO-SAXON COUNTRIES - HAPPY FAMILIES GAME

HAPPY FAMILIES GAME RULES
THE ANGLO-SAXON COUNTRIES
Language : ENGLISH - 5 pages
2 to 4-6 players.

Contains 42 cards divided in 7 families (Australia, England, Canada, Scotland, Ireland,
New Zealand, USA)
The idea of the game is to collect whole families.
The dealer deals 6 cards to each player. The remaining cards are placed face down to
form a stock. The player to dealer's left starts. A turn consists of asking a specific player
for a specific card from a family. For example, if it is my turn I might say: 'John, have you
got the koala from the Australia family please? The player who asks must already hold
at least one card of the requested family, so I must hold at least one card from the
Australia family to say this. If the player who was asked (Mary) has the right card in her
deck (the koala from the Australia family in this case), she must give it to the player who
asked for it. That player then gets another turn and may again ask any player for any
card already held by the asker. If the person asked does not have the right card, she
says “pick a card!” or "Go fish!". The asker must then draw the top card of the stock. If
the drawn card is the one asked for, the asker shows it and says “lucky dip” and gets
another turn. If the drawn card is not the one asked for, the asker keeps it, but the turn
now passes to the next player. As soon as a player collects a book of 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.

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