In a Pickle (card game) would allow the sequence lawyer-pickle-jar, because a lawyer could be in a pickle (in a manner of speaking) and a pickle can fit in a jar, but the alternate rules would not allow this because a lawyer cannot fit in a jar. In a Pickle (card game) In a Pickle is a card and word game for two to six players. It was published by Gamewright in 2004. "In a Pickle" contains 320 cards, each displaying a noun. To start the game, each player is dealt five cards, and four cards are placed face up in the shape of a
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