Happy Families Happy Families Happy Families is a traditional card game, usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. The object of the game is to collect complete families. The player whose turn it is asks another player for a specific card from the same family as a card that the player already has. If the asked player has the card, he gives it to the requester and the requester can then ask any player for another card. If the asked player does not have the card, it
Happy Families 1990, BBC1 showed a children's TV series based on the Happy Families Card Game, including the characters from the game. In 1987, the town of Dartmouth in Devon, UK, produced a special version of the game to commemorate the many real business owners in the town that had names appropriate to their jobs. These were: Many of the businesses are still there as of 2012, but had been removed as of 2017. In 2016, a British games company called GoForItGames.co.uk produced a contemporary series of special edition Happy Family card games that dispense with the professions. The card illustrations address