I am trying to figure out the name of a card game my family had in the 70’s. It may have been something from the 60’s though. We played it in the late 70’s, which I would have been nine at the tail end of. I think my parents had it before that, but my brother and I maybe weren’t ready to play it until we were 7 or 8 or so.
I am pretty sure it was a matching game (but not Memory), and the cards were bigger than normal (or I was just very small and the cards seemed big). There were designs on the cards, like shapes intermingled with each other. The shapes were colored. I remember one of the colors was a light teal (or the card tray was; I just remember that color as part of it somehow). And I think the shapes had black outlines.
I remember the game needed a lot of space. We would play it on the floor.
I think there were two decks of matching cards and one deck would get put out, face-up. Then one card in the second deck would be flipped over and you would have to find the matching card. …Maybe. Or maybe a matching shape…? Little fuzzy on that.
The less cards that were on the ground, the quicker you could find the match. That made the game get pretty violent for my brother and I as we tried to be the first to snatch the right card.
Anyone have an idea of what this game could be? My google-fu has failed me.
There was a game called Memory that was like this. The cards were thick cardboard and square. My friend had a Lord of the Rings version which had pictures from the Hobbit cartoon but yours sounds like the generic version.
Thanks, but it wasn’t Memory. At least the version I know of, which is similar to what you describe. I had that and loved it, but this was a more adult game.
These cards were of normal playing card thickness, but bigger than normal ones. You set the cards out face up, not down like you do in memory. The challenge wasn’t to remember where the two cards were, but to find the matching design. And the designs were more intricate than a simple picture and each was made to be quite similar in order to throw you off. Like you would think you had the right card, but then see there was no circle or a color was different. It was a game that an adult was meant to find somewhat challenging.
Okay, now my google-fu just came to life - “card games 70’s design matching.” Just a matter of finding the right terms.
The game was called Scan… which makes a lot of sense. My memory of the cards was substantially different, but they are completely familiar upon seeing them now. The rest of my memories seem to be just right, though:
“SCAN is a family game for 2 to 8 players, Ages 9 and up. It contains two identical decks of cards printed with distinctive markings. To start SCAN, a card in the holder is turned up and players try to be first to locate identical markings on the other set of cards which are spread out on the table. SCAN is tense and exciting, requiring concentration and quick reactions to be a winner.”