Games from the Patents
The archives of the Patent Registries are full of lost dreams, many of which are games. These are inventions that never saw manufacture, for many reasons. We have chosen more than a few to bring to life with all the care that design and modern technology can bring to the task.
If you have a hankering to play a new game, but want it to be cards in the hand, pick one of these
The Rainbow Game
A new edition of the 1920s game
In 1923 Robert Crawford Johnson invented a new kind of playing card deck, and with it a game that used the principles of colour-blending to makes tricks. We have remade the pack, added a missing colour, and made a simpler version of the rules of play. Rainbow is an unusual and strikingly beautiful game to play. The pack comes with instructions for two extra games, one of which is a Hanafuda-style game, and a solitaire game quite unlike any other
