Happy Families

Few games companies can claim to have been so influential as Jaques of London has been for the 215 years we have been manufacturing high quality sports and game equipment. In our two centuries of business, we have invented croquet, Ping Pong, ludo, snakes and ladders, tiddley winks and - perhaps the game most synomonous with the Jaques' name - Happy Families which we invented in the 1880's. With illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, chief illustrator of 'Punch' magazine and the original artist for Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland, the instantly recognisable faces of Mr Grits the Grocer, Mr Bun the Baker and all the other families have made this game into a worldwide success. Easily played by people of all ages, these vividly imagined characters are still selling strong now, more than a hundred years later. Jaques' cards consist of a pack of high quality matte laminated cards with the original designs lovingly recreated for your playing pleasure.