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Children’s Card Games (180)

July 26th, 2012 · 2 Comments

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The Peter Coddle games were early versions of “Mad Libs,” or of “Dr. Quack.”  One player read about Peter Coddle’s misadventures; other players drew cards to fill in spaces in the story.  The most popular version chronicles the rural Coddle’s trip to New York; another takes him to Chicago.  This one follows him to the 1939 World’s Fair.

You can play digital Coddle over here.

(Posted by Doug Skinner.)

Tags: Card Games · Ephemera

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  • 1 name Children’s Card Games (204) // Jun 15, 2014 at 2:17 pm

    […] another precursor of “Mad Libs,” like the other early games “Dr. Quack” and “Peter Coddle.”  One player reads the story of Silas’s attempts to overcome his shyness and propose to […]

  • 2 name Memorable Magazines (6): Grump // Aug 24, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    […] titles. In 1958, he and Leonard Stern invented Mad Libs (actually a twist on such old amusements as Peter Coddle or Dr. Quack), and formed Price Stern Sloan (with Larry Sloan) to sell […]