There have been other card games that adapt non-card games: baseball or bowling, to name two. This 1959 offering from Russell, “Tail the Donkey,” reworks the old party favorite. Players compete to collect a complete donkey — in a specific order, to make it trickier. No blindfolds or sharp objects are required. The design on the back is a deft one, I think.
(Posted by Doug Skinner)
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1 Win // Dec 21, 2012 at 1:27 am
Magnificent! I think this is my favorite of all the card games/art you’ve posted here, Doug.
2 Win // Dec 21, 2012 at 1:51 am
Being currently unsupervised in charge of an online connection, I couldn’t resist the temptation to search for the origins and meaning of pinning the tail on the donkey. Not much luck there, but I did come across a Japanese analogue called Fuku Warai, in which, instead of the outline of a donkey, the outline of a chubby face is laid out and blindfolded players invited to place facial features wherever they guess they belong. Digital versions of Fuku Warai can now be downloaded for time-wasting on iPhones. I suppose the old surrealist favorite, Exquisite Corpse, belongs in the same category of blind conjecture. I wonder if anyone ever attempted to turn that one into a card game…?
3 Doug // Dec 21, 2012 at 12:14 pm
I’m glad you enjoy the donkey. The closest I know to an Exquisite Corpse card game is “Five Card Nancy”: popular, I hear, among cartoonists. Players compete to assemble a narrative from panels taken from Bushmiller’s “Nancy.”