French Conversation Cards

This 1897 educational card game consists of a deck of 48 plain undersized cards, each printed with either a question or an answer in French. The 24 questions and 24 answers are divided equally among the players. The first player calls out a question, and the player to his left must offer a suitable reply. If he cannot, the next player has an opportunity and so on round the table. When a question is answered, both the questioner and the answerer get to discard those cards, and the player providing a correct answer gets to ask the next question. The winner is the first to empty his hand unless a question is called out that no one can answer, in which case the game ends immediately and the player with the fewest cards in hand wins. The rule card says the cards include a vocabulary of more than 200 words and introduce "the various changes of the Articles, Adverbs, Pronouns and Verbs. It can be used with success as a novel and pleasing way of studying the French language."