Happy Families

by Simon Wintle
Apr 18, 2010

Happy Families is probably one of the most popular card games ever invented, with educational benefits relating to sorting and matching of sets, as well as early literacy and elementary genealogy, flowers or bird identification, etc.

Happy Families No.5367

by Matt Probert
Aug 04, 2015

Tower Press “Happy Families” No.5367

1963

Happy Families of the World

by Rex Pitts (1940-2021)
Sep 11, 2018

Happy Families of the World published by Pepys Games, 1963.

1930

Happy Families, c.1930

by Rex Pitts (1940-2021)
May 28, 2015

“Happy Families” game published by Chad Valley c.1930 drawn in the slightly grotesque style of the Victorian era.

1950

Happy Families, c.1950

by Rex Pitts (1940-2021)
May 28, 2015

Chad Valley “Happy Families” card game, c.1950.

1985

Happy Gas Families

by Rex Pitts (1940-2021)
Jan 09, 2021

Happy Gas Families published by British Gas, c.1985.

1994

Hearts of London

by Matt Probert
Oct 31, 2018

Hearts of London for British Heart Foundation 1994.

Hee Trading Co

by Anthony Lee
Sep 11, 2011

Hee Trading Co., Malaysia, manufacture board games, jig-saw puzzles, chess sets, games compendiums as well as card games such as Happy Families, Donkey and Snap.

Jaques’ Games

by Simon Wintle
Jan 06, 2011

John Jaques & Son (established in 1795) published a large range of popular parlour games, many of which have become classics.

1861

Jaques’ Happy Families

by Simon Wintle
Apr 18, 2010

In 1851 the games manufacturer John Jaques of London (founded in 1795) commissioned a set of drawings from John Tenniel, later Sir John, the chief cartoonist of Punch, for their new game of Happy Families.