Wild card (cards) "Weli", a special 6 of Bells, the 7 of Bells and 7 of Acorns. In the game of Perlaggen there are six or seven wild cards: four permanent "Perlaggs" - K or "Maxl", 6 or "Weli", 7 or "Little Weli", the 7 of Bells or "Bell-Spitz" and 7 or "Eichelspitz" - as well as 3 "Trump "Perlaggs"" - the 7, Unter and Ober of Trumps. There is a tendency among some players to regard wild cards as "impure" or treat wild card games as silly or amateurish. While it is certainly true that a game with too many wild cards
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