#XploreMore 2014 - Task 63 - Learn a new card game

Challenge 63 - Learn a new card game

When visiting friends, Amy was given a pack of cards called "Happy, Jeu de 7 families” - a French version of Happy Families (apparently free with a McDonalds Happy Meal). We love playing the original version so were looking forward to learning a new version in French. The rules for the game differed slightly because instead of family members there were 5 cards for each family and each was numbered.

To begin with, we dealt the cards between the four of us. The object of the game was to collect all five members of a family. The person who collected the most families won the game.

Rules:

The youngest person starts by asking someone else for a family member but they must have a card from that family to be able to request another. If the person that they ask has the card they must give it over and the player may continue to ask for more cards from the same or other people playing the game. If the person asked does not have the card then play passes to that person and they may then request cards. Once a family is collected it is placed on the table. 

Now, the “new” part of this game was the French that was required to play it. First of all, we learnt the names of the 7 families - how to say them and what they meant.

Famille Cirque - Circus family

Famille Deguisement - Fancy Dress family in disguise

Famille Fruits - Fruit family

Famille Grimace - Funny Face Family

Famille Musicien - Musical Family

Famille Sportif - Sporty Family

Famille Travaux - Working Family

We then recapped the numbers 1 to 5: un, deus, trios, quatre, cinq

Finally, we learnt how to ask for a card:

“Est-ce que tu as Famille X, numéraux X?” The answer was of course: “Oui” or ‘Non”

We also added a rule to our game: you could only ask en francais! C’etait super!