Burro (card game) Burro (card game) Burro () or los burros is a card game played with spanish playing cards. The principle objective of the game is to get four cards of the same number. The ideal number of players is from 4 to 8. The objective of the game is to run out of cards as quickly as possible. Each time one of the players lose, they are assigned a letter of the word "burro". The player who is first to complete the word becomes the ultimate loser of the game. The final winner will be the player who has failed to
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