Catetos

John Martz | August 4th, 2005

Catetos is a Flickr gallery of a French card game in which the cards are divided up by artisitic profession (painter, sculptor, printmaker, etc.)

In fact, the entire set of vintage French graphics is pretty sweet.

(via Bibi)

UPDATE
After this link was picked up by Boing Boing, a reader wrote in to tell them that this is a version of Happy Families, a game played like Go Fish.

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5 Comments

  1. Ward says:
    August 4, 2005 at 1:13 pm

    This stuff is so friggin’ beautiful, I need to sit down….

  2. Bibi says:
    August 5, 2005 at 1:43 am

    Thanks for the link Johnny. :)

  3. karramarro says:
    August 5, 2005 at 9:43 am

    Thanks for the link :)
    I’m happy everyone is enjoying the card set.

  4. fabien. says:
    August 5, 2005 at 10:31 am

    Beautiful old cards. This game is called in french “Jeu de 7 familles” – literally “game of the 7 families” – it was (is?) very famous when I was young (30 now). Many different kinds of sets was existing.

  5. Drawn! The Illustration Blog » Blog Archive » Animal Families card game says:
    November 29, 2005 at 12:13 am

    [...] Jake sends in this link to scans of a card game set called Animal Families, which seems to be a varaition on the Happy Families games we blogged about back in August. More fun things like this set can be found at Things Magazine [...]

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