Top Trumps Tournament London 2012
Game
2011 (made)
2011 (made)
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Top Trumps is a competitive card game which first became a craze in school playgrounds in the mid 1970s. The game developed from ‘quartets’, which had a similar objective: to beat your opponents and win all the 40 or so cards.
Sold for pocket money prices, in the early days Top Trumps was marketed mainly to boys, and the military-focused subjects included cars, planes and trucks. In 1982, Waddingtons took over the brand and determined to broaden the game’s appeal, introducing decks featuring cats and dogs as well as horror characters, football teams and prehistoric monsters.
In 1999 Winning Moves relaunched the brand, producing smaller decks of only 30 cards and tying the games in to popular culture. They now produce packs for every major event, TV series and film release.
Rules of the game:
Each card contains statistics such as speed, weight, length etc. The starting player calls out the category that he/she feels will ‘trump’ the other players, and then lays the card face up. The remaining players show their cards and the one with the highest score wins, and takes all the cards.
In the Top Trumps Tournament for two to six people, players move around the board playing mini-games to win pegs. Once a player collects nine pegs, they move to the final.
The mini-games:
My Pack All Play: First player chooses favourite pack, and all players get three cards each for a short version of the traditional Top Trumps game. The winner receives two pegs.
Head to Head: Each player gets three cards from a randomly chosen pack. The winner receives one peg.
Shoot Out: Spin the spinner to see who starts this game between all players with only one card each.
Hi Lo: Three cards are dealt face down, and player must guess whether the stats in a particular category will be higher or lower than the previous card. Receive one peg for every correct guess.
The Final: Players exchange their pegs for cards, so the player with the most pegs ends up with the most cards. They choose the category for a final game to decide the overall winner of the tournament.
Sold for pocket money prices, in the early days Top Trumps was marketed mainly to boys, and the military-focused subjects included cars, planes and trucks. In 1982, Waddingtons took over the brand and determined to broaden the game’s appeal, introducing decks featuring cats and dogs as well as horror characters, football teams and prehistoric monsters.
In 1999 Winning Moves relaunched the brand, producing smaller decks of only 30 cards and tying the games in to popular culture. They now produce packs for every major event, TV series and film release.
Rules of the game:
Each card contains statistics such as speed, weight, length etc. The starting player calls out the category that he/she feels will ‘trump’ the other players, and then lays the card face up. The remaining players show their cards and the one with the highest score wins, and takes all the cards.
In the Top Trumps Tournament for two to six people, players move around the board playing mini-games to win pegs. Once a player collects nine pegs, they move to the final.
The mini-games:
My Pack All Play: First player chooses favourite pack, and all players get three cards each for a short version of the traditional Top Trumps game. The winner receives two pegs.
Head to Head: Each player gets three cards from a randomly chosen pack. The winner receives one peg.
Shoot Out: Spin the spinner to see who starts this game between all players with only one card each.
Hi Lo: Three cards are dealt face down, and player must guess whether the stats in a particular category will be higher or lower than the previous card. Receive one peg for every correct guess.
The Final: Players exchange their pegs for cards, so the player with the most pegs ends up with the most cards. They choose the category for a final game to decide the overall winner of the tournament.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 18 parts.
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| Title | Top Trumps Tournament London 2012 (manufacturer's title) |
| Brief description | Boxed game for two to six players, with card decks and instructions, Winning Moves, 2011 |
| Production type | Mass produced |
| Object history | Produced as part of an extensive range of merchandise for the Olympic Games in London in 2012. |
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| Summary | Top Trumps is a competitive card game which first became a craze in school playgrounds in the mid 1970s. The game developed from ‘quartets’, which had a similar objective: to beat your opponents and win all the 40 or so cards. Sold for pocket money prices, in the early days Top Trumps was marketed mainly to boys, and the military-focused subjects included cars, planes and trucks. In 1982, Waddingtons took over the brand and determined to broaden the game’s appeal, introducing decks featuring cats and dogs as well as horror characters, football teams and prehistoric monsters. In 1999 Winning Moves relaunched the brand, producing smaller decks of only 30 cards and tying the games in to popular culture. They now produce packs for every major event, TV series and film release. Rules of the game: Each card contains statistics such as speed, weight, length etc. The starting player calls out the category that he/she feels will ‘trump’ the other players, and then lays the card face up. The remaining players show their cards and the one with the highest score wins, and takes all the cards. In the Top Trumps Tournament for two to six people, players move around the board playing mini-games to win pegs. Once a player collects nine pegs, they move to the final. The mini-games: My Pack All Play: First player chooses favourite pack, and all players get three cards each for a short version of the traditional Top Trumps game. The winner receives two pegs. Head to Head: Each player gets three cards from a randomly chosen pack. The winner receives one peg. Shoot Out: Spin the spinner to see who starts this game between all players with only one card each. Hi Lo: Three cards are dealt face down, and player must guess whether the stats in a particular category will be higher or lower than the previous card. Receive one peg for every correct guess. The Final: Players exchange their pegs for cards, so the player with the most pegs ends up with the most cards. They choose the category for a final game to decide the overall winner of the tournament. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | B.242:1 to 18-2011 |
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