Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh card game published by Pepys Games 1965.
Winnie the Pooh, a card game with characters from the original story by A. A. Milne, was published by Pepys Games in 1965 with artwork adapted from a series of Walt Disney cartoons. A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, who was the basis for the character Christopher Robin. The four numbered cards (Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Kanga & Roo and Christopher Robin) have a special role during play. See the Box►


Above: Winnie the Pooh card game published by Pepys Games 1965, which also includes a map of Hundred Acre Wood. 44 cards + rules booklet + map in box.


By Rex Pitts (1940-2021)
Member since January 30, 2009
View ArticlesRex's main interest was in card games, because, he said, they were cheap and easy to get hold of in his early days of collecting. He is well known for his extensive knowledge of Pepys games and his book is on the bookshelves of many.
His other interest was non-standard playing cards. He also had collections of sheet music, music CDs, models of London buses, London Transport timetables and maps and other objects that intrigued him.
Rex had a chequered career at school. He was expelled twice, on one occasion for smoking! Despite this he trained as a radio engineer and worked for the BBC in the World Service.
Later he moved into sales and worked for a firm that made all kinds of packaging, a job he enjoyed until his retirement. He became an expert on boxes and would always investigate those that held his cards. He could always recognize a box made for Pepys, which were the same as those of Alf Cooke’s Universal Playing Card Company, who printed the card games. This interest changed into an ability to make and mend boxes, which he did with great dexterity. He loved this kind of handicraft work.
His dexterity of hand and eye soon led to his making card games of his own design. He spent hours and hours carefully cutting them out and colouring them by hand.