Travellers (card game) Travellers (card game) Travellers, also known as All Fours, Clock, Four of a Kind, Hidden Cards, Hunt, Sundial or Watch is a card game of the patience genre which uses a single card pack of either 52 or 32 playing cards. Parlett notes that the game has a "rhythmical feature that might be called 'shuttling'", as in the game of Weavers. Twelve piles of 4 cards each are laid out on the table, face up, and a further talon of four cards, face down. The piles are named, in order, the Ace pile, the Queens pile and so on, down
Happy Families ladders, and first published before the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cards following Jaques's original designs, with grotesque illustrations possibly by Sir John Tenniel (there was no official credit), are still being made. The "Happy Families" children's storybooks, written by Allan Ahlberg, are titled in a similar way to the names of characters in this game. The names of the family members are structured as follows, where X stands for a surname and Y for an occupation. Family names, which vary from edition to edition, include: The eleven families indicated by Bold italics are from Jaques's original edition. In 1989 and