We’ll have one more specimen of “Happy Families” before we move on.  This one is “Flower Families,” from Piatnik, in Vienna.  There’s no date, I’m afraid.  But we are, for once, given the name of the artist: Hubert Lechner, of the Vienna Academy.

This game is also somewhat unusual, in that it apparently assumes that the players are playing for money.   The rules card tells us that the “player with the most fours” nets an “agreed bonus”; whereas the “player who is misinformed” is slapped with a “stipulated fine.”  You’d better bone up on those bulbous plants if you want baby to get that new pair of shoes.

(Posted by Doug Skinner.)