SIX GENERATIONS Card Games by Fyodor Soloview. $8.97. ISBN 0976041804. Made in U.S.A.

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72 cards. ISBN 0-9760418-0-4. Catalog search code 6GN1000.
All rights reserved. Copyright 2004-2006 by Fyodor Soloview.

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Six Generations
THE HEIRS
23
GENPOKER
Blind Date
Dynastia
Meet the Ancestors

Generation 1: Current time.

Generation 2: Current time.

Generation 3: 1940-1965.

Generation 4: 1900-1925.

Generation 5: 1860-1885.

Generation 6: 1820-1845.

The answer is: the modern playing cards have been created in Europe during the monarchy, and no other family members could join the Royal family as an equal party. That's why other cards in the deck became the boring numbers, from two to ten.

The evolution of society made all people equal. But we were playing the old monarchic cards, and didn't really have a choice to follow the history... until now. I am happy to introduce new, democratic deck of playing cards for all your gaming needs. This is real revolution in card games! And each card has a picture of a man or a woman in a colorful costume from the country and time they are from.

Please, learn the rules of different card games, read reviews, and enjoy playing cards with your friends, family and children!

Fyodor Soloview,
Inventor of Six Generations Card Games.

Why do all regular playing cards have King, Queen and Jack as the only costumed characters?

We make history fun, so kids will
learn the history!

Six Generations
of the
Family
Tree

LEARN:
Genealogy,
History,
First names,
Costumes,
Countries in Europe,
Immigration to USA
with Six Generations Cards.

NEW PLAYING CARDS
"SIX GENERATIONS" ARE INVENTED UNEXPECTEDLY

The monarchic structure of standard playing cards with King, Queen and Jack is now breaking apart by an Alaskan game designer who invented a new "democratic" deck with a 64-person family in six generations.

When Fyodor Soloview, a graphic designer from Alaska was searching his genealogy with the roots of Russian, German, and Ukrainian ancestors, he caught an idea that anybody's triangle-looking family tree could be used to create a new card game. After a year of research and choosing a universal match for parents and children, husbands and wives, lifestyle and clothing, names and countries for the European family of immigrants to America, his idea has generated an innovative card game, "Six Generations."

"The amount of our ancestors is doubled in each older generation," Fyodor Soloview said. "We have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on. In six generations we get 62 ancestors. It's a perfect amount for cards in a deck, since we need to shuffle them easily. That's how I stopped at number six."

Fyodor Soloview did not think twice to name an immigrant from Austria -- "Arnold." A man from England was "Charles," from Germany -- "Karl." All first names were taken from the bureau of vital statistics to display the most popular from the times they were from. Generation #1 in the game consists of the siblings Emily and Jacob -- their names keep the record popularity for newborns in the U.S. since 1996."

The surprise came later, when this solitaire-type card game was already printed by Carta Mundi, a U.S. game manufacturer, in September 2004. After making the first sales, Fyodor has realized that this genealogical deck was not just a single game "Six Generations," but a modern-looking pack of "democratic" playing cards. >>> MORE>>>

New Deck of Cards Has Potential for Casino Game Variations

A new deck of cards has been invented and is currently being marketed to jumpstart its popularity. It is called Six Generations, and is modeled after the structure of a family tree - a man and a woman, two sets of parents, four sets of grandparents, eight sets of great grandparents, and sixteen sets of great-great grandparents. The card deck, inventor says, can be used to play several gambling games, including variations of blackjack, poker and solitaire.

Card games are a passion for many online gamblers. There are many games to choose from - some that are strictly for fun, like Old Maid, and others that are more skillful, like poker or even backgammon. Some card games have been invented in small circles and have evolved into legitimate casino games. Some card games do not even make it from the board game. How each game's fate is determined is largely due to its popularity and how fair the game is according to the rules.

There is a new card game out, which according to its inventor, abolishes the structure of the French Pack that uses Jacks, Queens, Kings and Aces. >>> MORE>>>

DOWN WITH THE MONARCHS, UP WITH DEMOCRACY!

Finally, the day that all you freedom-loving Barrelhousers have been waiting for: someone has mustered up the courage to break down yet another oppressive, monarchic structure in favor of a more democratic ideal! And what I'm talking about here, of course, is playing cards. No more Kings and Queens and Jacks ruling over the deck with their iron fists! No more "boring numbers."

Fyodor Soloview, a graphic designer from Alaska, has invented a new "democratic" deck featuring a 64-person family in six generations. "My customers asked me the quick explanation of this game. I told them, it's like playing cards. But instead of three characters of King, Queen and Jack, in my deck each card is a costumed member from a non-monarchic family. Here we match husband and wife, children and parents, but not the boring numbers anymore. It's not a fight between four suits; it's matchmaking and creation of the family."

And for those of you who love the thrill of gambling but want to throw off the shackles of traditional cards' monarchic rule, you're in luck: Soloview has introduced a new game, GenPoker, which is almost exactly like regular poker, if by "exactly like" you mean "completely different than." >>>MORE>>>

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Number of players:
2 to 12.

LEARN TO PLAY

This is an educational, family history card game for people of all ages, children and adults. Two to 12 players create a family tree of 64 characters spanning six generations. Each character is "born" into the game with his or her own story of genealogy, ancestors and matchmaking. Players will learn 72 most popular male and female first names, look at ethnic costumes of Europeans and Americans and memorize 20 European nations.

The game SIX GENERATIONS follows the history of the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries' period of European immigration. The number of stars on the American flag increases as the nation grows. Children will realize how many ancestors (62!) lived through just the last five generations to make their own life happen!

The game represents six generations of a family who came from Europe to the United States in the first half of the 19th century. The latest generation consists of Emily and Jacob, brother and sister living in the United States of 2005. As the cards are played, five generations of Emily and Jacob's ancestors will appear. The game contains 72 cards, 36 male (black numbers) and 36 females (red numbers). >>>more >>>

Four generations of Henry Smith's siblings have been waiting for 90 years, for only two of the qualified heirs, Emily and Jacob, brother and sister, to turn sixteen by 2006 and enter into genealogy battle with their numerous ancestors and trustees about what being the "smartest" heir means.

Henry Smith, who made his fortune by discovering gold in California during the Gold Rush and his future investments, signed his will in 1917 at the age of 86. With an unusual precision, he left his 35-year-old son George without the money. Smith was angry that his son was not married, did not have siblings, and was planning to join the United States Army in the battlefield in Europe during WWI, where he could be possibly killed.

Instead, he signed his inheritance to some unknown great-great-grandchild, to be born in the future, and he died shortly afterward. That made his son change his mind, marry soon, have a son named James, and manage the destiny of his other siblings, so they would keep the family dynasty alive for another three generations in order to get the inheritance.

The family line almost stopped when James's only son David was killed in Vietnam in 1964. His father was forced to remarry, and at the age of 47 he and his new wife Linda had another son, Michael. Michael, now 40, and his wife Jennifer, have two children, Emily, 17, and Jacob, 16, who are the straight heirs of their great-great-grandfather Henry. The judicial problem with selecting the right heir for billion-dollar assets is that even though the children have agreed to share the money equally, they still must compete with each other, because legally the inheritance should be given to only one: the smartest child. Rules of competition between Emily and Jacob have been set by the board of trustees, who might hold the funds until the contest is over.

This extraordinary family story of money, love, duty and war by Fyodor Soloview influenced him to design the heartbreaking, chess-style card game, "The Heirs." The pack of genealogical playing cards, called "Six Generations," should be used to play "The Heirs." >>FULL REVIEW>> >>>Rules of THE HEIRS Card Game>>>

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AMERICA (sample)

highest hand at GENPOKER card game

GENPOKER, as most of the Poker games, is a game of chance. The name "Genpoker" comes as a combination of two words: GENERATIONS and POKER. The major difference with Poker is: a card with lower number in Genpoker always has more value.

Genpoker is played with a standard 72-pack of Six Generations cards, but in the beginning the players must remove 8 cards from category #6 out of the deck, and play only with other 64 cards. The cards to withdraw are: any 4 couples from the same nation (country) from Set #6, total of 8 cards.

The other 64 cards to play with are divided into six categories, or sets. Each category portrays a different generation. There are couples from 16 countries of early 19th century Europe (32 cards) and five generations of American descendants (16, 8, 4, 2 and 2 cards), the last generation of which is a brother and sister living at the start of the 21st century.

The cards are ranked (from high to low) Children (#1) - 2 cards, Parents (#2) - 2 cards, Grandparents (#3) - 4 cards, XX century (#4) - 8 cards, Victorian (#5) - 16 cards, and Europe (#6) - 32 cards. The cards are also divided into "Europeans" (32 cards #6), "Americans" ( 32 cards from #5 to #1); "Ancestors" (62 cards from #6 to #2), and "Children" (2 cards #1).

There are two suits: red (women) and black (men), 32 cards of each suit; however, no suit is higher than another.

All Genpoker hands contain five cards, the highest hand wins. The cards with the lower numbers in Genpoker always have more value, than the cards with the higher numbers. MORE>

For two players

Who does not know the rules of the world famous games "Old Maid" , "Akulina", "Vedma", or "Sorceress"!? Here is a version of the same kind of game with Six Generations cards.

The number of players in the Blind Date is unlimited. Two to six players can play 32 cards (generations 1 to 5), more players use entire pack with 72 cards.

The dealer deals out all cards one at a time from right to left. A player, who gets card #1 with Jacob, discharge it. All players also discharge pairs of cards. Red and black cards from the same generation is a pair.

Then each player from the left of the player, who discharged a card with Jacob, pulls the right neighbor`s card. Each time a player get a pair again, this pair need to be discharged. The card with Emily can not be sloughed. Emily may change the victim during the game several times. In the end the loser has one card with Emily.

Probably, the only card game, which is not required a desk, or any flat surface to play, is the card game "21", or it's variations, called "Black Jack" and "Pontoon".

With the Six Generations deck, same rules are good with the card game "23". Just take away any 8 cards with number 6.

The dealer deal to each player four cards, and ask if they need more. The winner should have 23 scores. Get over 23 - and you are an instant looser. If you have less than 23 - compete with other players and the dealer, who has the better score - closer to 23.

SIX GENERATIONS
in the
FAMILY TREE

New genealogical card game for children ‘Six Generations’ by Alaskan inventor Fyodor Soloview can spark population growth in U.S.A., Canada, Europe and Russia.

Alaskan inventor Fyodor Soloview discovered a simple way to increase fertility rates of future parents, now 5-12 year-old children, by pointing their interest to genealogy and saving their dynasty from extinction.

The governments of European nations have been worried about progressive declines in populations, which will face them with serious shortage of labor. Nobody had an answer before as to how to secure an average fertility rate of over 2.1 babies per woman, which required human reproduction.

To fix this dilemma, Soloview said, governments, schools and parents should educate children in family genealogy. At home, children must observe the family tree with several generations of their ancestors. To help the parents, Fyodor Soloview, a father of four children, designed the family history card game Six Generations, which looks like a deck of playing cards. >>>MORE>>>

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Here's another reason to buy Fyodor Soloview's
Six Generations card game: it could save your family
from extinction. > The Genealogue Blogspot >

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HENRY SMITH

The Multimillion Dollar Inheritance, Left in 1917 By Californian Gold Miner to His Future Smartest Great-Great-Grandchild, Still Waits for the Winner

ABOUT THE PLAYING CARDS

Welcome to SIX GENERATIONS, an innovative deck of playing cards, that may revolutionize the way people play card games.

Six Generations cards could be used as an alternative to traditional playing cards of the French Pack that uses Jacks, Queens, Kings and Aces. Instead of monarch-led suits, the Six Generations pack has a "democratized" family structure, featuring six generations of one family, from different countries and time periods.

The pack, a pleasant example of information coupled with entertainment, contains a set of 72 cards with pictures of six generations of immigrants belonging to a family who came to the United States from sixteen European nations in the first half of the nineteenth century. The latest generation consists of the siblings Emily and Jacob, currently living in the United States; and the other five generations represent their ancestors. The 72 cards, comprising pictures of 36 men (black numbers) and 36 women (red numbers), are divided into six categories. Each category portrays a different generation.

Recommended for ages six to adult, and up to 12 players, "Six Generations" is a highly engaging concept aimed at providing wholesome entertainment. It would be a welcome addition to any family's personal collection of games.

This pack also has educational value, as it provides useful clues to the different types of clothing worn by the people from different nations and time periods that are featured on its cards. Players will learn 72 most popular male and female first names and memorize 20 European countries and regions. The number of stars on the American flag increases as the nation grows. Children will realize how many ancestors (62!) lived through just the last five generations to make their own life happen!

The name of the deck, Six Generations, is based on idea of creating a deck of family members in multiple generations. Each older generation is doubled in the amount of family members, thereby making a set of 63 in six generations. Adding one more card to generation #1 (so Emily, or her brother Jacob, would not be alone), the family tree gets an even number of members - 64. It comes closest to the standard French Pack while being true to a balanced family tree.

Also, with 8 additional cards (4 couples from 4 other European nations), the deck stands very close with the historical accuracy in representing political map of Europe in 1830, and also suggests more choices in Six Generations card game, where only 16 couples could form the family tree, while some other four couples might not even reach the coast of America as the immigrants, and would be excluded from the family.

Inventor of Six Generations cards, Fyodor Soloview thinks the pack could catch on as a new take on traditional card games: "It's not the boring numbers anymore or a fight between four suits; it's the matchmaking and creation of a family.”

Six Generations pack will work for many favorite card games, such as Old Maid, 21, Pontoon, Rummy and Happy Families, with slight adaptations to the rules. And for those who love the thrill of gambling but want to throw off the shackles of traditional cards' monarchic rule, Soloview has introduced the new games, GenPoker and Dynastia.

The deck is supposed to be more entertaining than the standard French Pack, while still being playable at all of the standard casino table games. For players who are skeptical, seeing these cards in a casino is actually not such a long shot.

Also, with this new deck of cards, the game players and other inventors may create hundreds new card games.

The pack comes with two additional cards with the rules of the first genealogical, patience card game Six Generations. The rules of other card games: “Genpoker”, “Blind Date”, “Dynastia”, “23”, “Meet the Ancestors” and "The Heirs" are available at this web-site.

The cards are manufactured in the United States of America by Carta Mundi USA.

The list of retail stores and on-line web-stores, who sell Six Generations Card Game, is available at this web-site at the page ORDERING.