Quartets (card game)

Four cards of a group, from a German Quartets deck by Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908): "Franz", "Basen", "Vetter" and "Butter". Each card names the other three in its group.

Quartets is a dedicated deck card game with the object to collect 4 cards in a series, similar to Go Fish and Happy Families.

Each pack originally contained 32 cards, divided into 8 groups of 4 cards, unlike a normal 52 pack of playing cards, but the number of groups changed from company to company.

A version of the game was published by the Austrian card game company Piatnik during the 1960s,[1] and later released by Dubreq [d], Ace, Waddingtons and other companies. The game went on to inspire Top Trumps.[1]

  1. ^ a b Top Trumps History and Game Rules