Answerit?
Card Game
1920-1925 (published)
1920-1925 (published)
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This is a question and answer game played like Lotto. There are 6 large cards and 136 small ones. The large cards are filled in when a question on the small cards is answered correctly. The label illustration shows adults playing the game rather than children. The design of their evening dress looks slightly earlier than the date of the game. So the game may have been first published before the First World War, which began in 1914.
Object details
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| Title | Answerit? (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed card |
| Brief description | Boxed question and answer game, Answerit?, made in England by the Chad Valley Company in the 1920s |
| Physical description | Design: 6 large cards, 136 small cards with questions and answers; card box covered with green and lined with red; pictorial label showing a group of people round a table playing the game No. of cards: 6 + 136 |
| Credit line | Given by Miss Dorothy F. Mayes |
| Object history | Lotto can be used to answer general knowledge questions, similar to those posed by the modern game of Trivial Pursuits. The large cards are filled in when a question on the small cards is answered correctly. The label illustration shows adults playing the game rather than children and their evening dress design does look slightly earlier than mid 1920s, possibly as early as the 1910-15 period. |
| Historical context | No. of Players: 6 Equipment required: 6 large cards and 136 small cards original box |
| Summary | This is a question and answer game played like Lotto. There are 6 large cards and 136 small ones. The large cards are filled in when a question on the small cards is answered correctly. The label illustration shows adults playing the game rather than children. The design of their evening dress looks slightly earlier than the date of the game. So the game may have been first published before the First World War, which began in 1914. |
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| Accession number | MISC.87-1976 |
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| Record created | March 4, 2000 |
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