The player with the most completed families wins. Play continues in this way until no families are separated among different players. When a player completes a family they place it face-down in front of them. If the asked player does not have the card, they say "not at home" and it becomes the asked player's turn. If the asked player has the card, they must give it to the requester, and the requester then takes another turn. The player whose turn it is asks another player for a specific card: the asking player must hold a card of the same family. Each card lists the three others that it groups with. Gameplay A 'family' from a set of old German Quartett cards. The game can also be adapted for use with an ordinary set of playing cards. In Germany and Austria, the game is known as Quartett or Ablegspiel (in Upper Austria and Styria) and is not restricted to sets of four people, but covers other topics such as farm animals or tractors. The object of the game is to collect complete families, and the game is similar to Go Fish and Quartets. Happy Families is a traditional British card game usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. Two cards from an 1880s edition of Jaques's Happy Families
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