SIX GENERATIONS - NEW PLAYING CARDS

Six Generations is a modern deck of playing cards and historical images, created with a help of a science, called genealogy. Genealogy, combining the knowledge in history and genetic about our families and ancestors, helps us to answer many questions of the present and the past.

This is one that kind of question. Why do all regular playing cards have King, Queen and Jack as the only costumed characters?

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. We are 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.

This pack consists of 72 cards representing people of six generations. There are couples from 20 countries of early 19th century Europe and five generations of American descendants (16, 8, 4, 2 and 2 cards) which can be laid out in various ways to form a family tree, the last generation of which is a brother and sister living at the start of the 21st century.

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

This deck comes with  the rules of the first solitaire-type card game SIX GENERATIONS, based on new genealogical concept of Six Generations playing cards. The rules of other card games available at this web-site on the page GAMES .

Please, read this rules and learn how to play, read the reviews about Six Generations playing cards, and check where to order  them. And enjoy playing the card games with your friends, family and children!

Read and print the rules
of the new card games:
Six Generations
23
Genpoker
Blind Date
Dynastia
Meet the Ancestors
The Heirs  (new)

ONE DECK -MANY
GAMES

Map of 1830 Europe.
The 6th generation of ancestors
in Six Generations card game
came to America from Europe
in the first half of 19th century.

Six Generations in Reviews

PLAYING HAPPY FAMILIES
Review by FAMILY HISTORY MONTHLY magazine
United Kingdom,   Dec. 2005
      A GENEALOGICAL PACK OF CARDS THAT MAY REVOLUTIONISE THE WAY PEOPLE PLAY CARD GAMES HAS BEEN INVENTED BY AN ALASKAN DESIGNER.
       Games creator Ted Soloview, made Six Generations after researching his own international ancestors. Initially intended as a solitaire-type card game that could teach people about immigration and family history, Soloview soon realised that the cards could be used as an alternative to traditional playing cards.
      Instead of monarch-led suits, the 72-card pack has a "democratised" family structure, featuring six generations of one family, from different countries and time periods.
      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."
     The pack will work for many favourite card games, such as pontoon, rummy and happy families, with slight adaptations to the rules.

Review by BOOKWIRE , Bowker ,   May 18, 2005
"SIX GENERATIONS: Immigration From Europe To America Edition", an innovative deck of playing cards designed and published by Ted Soloview, is a pleasant example of information coupled with entertainment. This pack 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 and 36 women, are divided into six categories. Each category portrays a different generation. Players are dealt six cards each, and they are allowed to dispose of a card when the person whose picture is printed on it matches the generation of the card played by the previous players. The ultimate objective of the game is for each player to get rid of all her cards, and the winner is the first one to do so.

Recommended for ages six to adult, "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 game 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.

Ted Soloview's creative idea is well complemented by the appealing artwork of Andrey Ayoshin and Lyudmila Lygina.

DOWN WITH THE MONARCHS,
UP WITH DEMOCRACY
Review by Mike Ingram, Barrel House Blogspot
         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!
         No more Kings and Queens and Jacks ruling over the deck with their iron fists! No more "boring numbers." Ted Soloview, a graphic designer from Alaska, has invented a new "democratic" deck featuring a 64-person family in six generations.
         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." >>>>>>>>>> read more >>>>>>>>>>

AMERICA
(sample) -
highest
hand in
Genpoker
card
game.

NEW DECK OF CARDS HAS POTENTIAL
FOR CASINO GAME VARIATIONS
 Review by Casino Conditions Staff
        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. The name of the deck, Six Generations, is based on Soloview's idea of creating a deck of family members in multiple generations.  Each generation is doubled in the amount of family members, thereby making a deck of 64, which comes closest to the standard French Pack while being true to a balanced family tree.  Soloview went even further in ranking the deck by not using numbers only, from one to six, but additionally, using matching costumes for family couples that are in the different suits, so to speak.  The oldest, sixth generation came to the United States from around Europe, while the different family members have particular names corresponding the country they come from, and the time periods.
      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. >>>> read more >>>>>>

Pictures of 19th century Americans from Six Generations playing cards have been used to illustrate an  educational project at school  in Alaska.

Six Generations
Playing Cards / Card Game / 72  cards
 $8.97 MSRP
 ISBN 0-9760418-0-4
Catalog code: 6GN 1000.
 First edition published in September 2004.
PUBLISHER:
Six Generations Publishing,
Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
   MANUFACTURER:
Carta Mundi USA,
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA.