Pepys speed card game rules

Castell Brothers Ltd are one of the most prolific publishers of card games in this country. Here is a short description of some of their latest publications. All the charm of these delightful characters is reproduced in full colour from Walt Disney originals.

It retails at 1s and is a game which can be played by two or more players. It is a simple family game, which is both instructive and enjoyable and has all the drama and thrills of the book on which it is founded. It is an amusing and topical game and at 1s offers extremely good value. Is there anyone to whom the name Belisha does not mean something? It is interesting, full of laughs and thrills and really points the way to road safety by illustrating the dangers of the road.

It takes you on a tour of England and Scotland and the cards show many of their most lovely beauty spots. The play is based on the popular game of Rummy, yet is different enough for it to be interesting and original. When the Snow White card game was used to promote Pears Soap, as far as I know there was no special wrapping, only the usual glassine wrap for the cards inside the box with a gold seal printed in red.

There was not even an advertisement for the soap on the box or the rules booklet. By the time Shuffled Symphonies was used for a similar promotion the rules booklet had been printed with a Pears advertisement on the back cover. One of the cards from the pack was outside the box and the whole thing was wrapped in cellophane. A warning was printed on the end of the box to tell buyers that this loose card would be needed as it was part of the pack.

Very restricted supplies only are available Crime Club one of my favourites produced in both green and purple backed versions seems to come in either green or purple boxes at random judging by the many packs I have seen. When war was declared, things at first seemed to continue as normal. Then, at the end of the year two games were rushed out to reflect the troubled times.

The first was Victory a splendid game with caricatures of British and German leaders which was published anonymously but registered to Castell Bros in December The other game, Vacuation , about evacuating young children away from target zones was also anonymous but registered at the same time to Castell Bros.

I also believe that they issued in mid They're Off and England Expects. Although I can offer no definite proof of this they both shout Pepys at me because the card quality and artwork are very similar and the box dimensions and the board are right.

In addition they both have the characteristic extra title card attached to the box, an unusual feature at this time in Britain.

Pinocchio came a bit later, in August, and this was cooperation with Disney. Kargo and Peter Pan were issued in ordinary tuck boxes instead of the hinged padded lid type used previously. In fact, by , wartime paper restrictions were so bad that Pepys were only publishing five games namely: - Speed , Peter Pan , Kargo , Dumbo and Belisha. It was issued in both red back and blue back versions with boxes to match.

International Football Whist was another unusual game which had a paper football pitch and a little metal football as well as the cards. Also in this year more Disney card games made their appearance. Mickey and the Beanstalk , which was devised by Ern Shaw, also had a special fold-out piece, this time a beanstalk.

Ern Shaw devised another two games for Pepys in this year. Above : Peter and the Wolf devised by Ern Shaw, I Commit appeared around this time. At first the game appeared with realistic police constable cards which obviously matched the style of all the other cards in the pack.

Ern Shaw devised another game for Pepys in this period called Sylabex , a syllable word game, at first in a double sized lid and bottom type box with 72 cards, but later, in at least another two editions, in the usual flip top box with 44 cards. This game was reissued much later by Gibsons as Wordmaker. Later editions I have detected at least three more have red backs and the duty amounts printed on the cards. The most recent variation had a different box and card back design.

The first of the games with an Enid Blyton connection came too. This was Faraway Tree based on some of the famous Blyton books about a colony of fairy folk who live up a tree.

Above : Famous Five , Above : Alice , c. Above : Woodland Snap , c. It was made from the same inexpensive board that was later to be used for the small number of cheaper range card games which Pepys introduced. A more conventional card game was Famous Five the first edition. Only 26 cards seemed a bit mean but there was also currency, share certificates and an indicator board.

There was also a de luxe edition in a red flock box. All the cards, money and certificates were the same apart from the certificates worth five shares. This game will appear later but renamed. I wonder if, when they introduced Woodland Happy Families and Woodland Snap , they realised just how popular these would be. Some of the earliest Woodland Happy Families issued had apparently completely randomly coloured panels at the top of the cards. Very soon the panels were improved so that each family had its own colour.

Farmyard Cries was the next game in , and, in my opinion, one of the wittiest. The cards were designed again by Racey Helps, each with an anthropomorphic cartoon and full of details in the background to add to the fun — excellent value!

Dan Dare was issued in The standard of both the artwork and the printing is superb. These card games must have made many a child very happy when they opened their birthday or Christmas presents. Of course, less fortunate children may have had to make do with cheaper games which were readily available from manufacturers like Tower Press and Clifford. The first was Circus Snap and this had only 36 cards and was made from a cheaper quality board and box.

For the money however, it represented good value. Flight was another of those slightly mysterious anonymous games. It was advertised in the rules booklets of other branded Pepys games but the game itself has no identification on it. Equipment: The game is played with four types of card in the following quantities: the standard cards 4 sets of 9, see below , Speedway cards 6 , Lightning cards 4 and the Extra turn card just the 1. The standard cards are divided into four sets: Aeroplane includes helicopters , though , ship , train and motor.

Each of these sets contains 9 numbered cards excluding motor, which only reaches 7 , and has an illustration of a certain 'plane, boat, or whatever For example: the 1 Aeroplane card depicts the 'plane used by the Wright Brothers , whereas 4 Motor shows Stirling Moss driving a Cooper. The four lightning cards are identical, and all show a lightning flash and the number 15, while the Extra turn card depicts an image to represent each set barring lightning , and carries the number Gameplay 7 cards are dealt out to each person playing.

The remaining cards are placed, face-down, where everyone can reach them. Play commences with the player to the left of the dealer, who can play any card in their hand. The next player, however, can only play a card of the same set, or one with the same number. Speedway cards count as either of the numbers they carry, or as the set Speedway.

If a player cannot do this or use a special card, see below , they must take a card from the deck left over from the dealing, and play passes to the next player.

The Special Cards! The Lightning Card: This card allows the player to change the set currently in use. For example, one could play a lightning card to switch from motor to ship. Once played, play passes to the next player; therefore the set could quite easily be changed back. If you would like a larger file, or to use the image in other ways, contact our Licensing team.

Wed—Sun: Alternatively search more than 1. No image available. England published. Design: chromolithographs; the reverse sides are red with the title printed in white twice. Type: Rummy Subject: Transport.

Card game. Card game, Speed, published in England by Pepys in In the case of horse cards which have alternative numbers, either number may be played. When a player has disposed of all his cards, the remianing players count up the numbers on their cards and the player with the lowest score after a fixed number of games is the winner.

The player who cuts the lowest number is the dealer for the first game.