A children's card game played with special cards in sets of four, each depicting members of a ‘family’, the object being to acquire as many sets as possible.
Example sentencesExamples
- One usually plays Happy Families around a table.
- Most young people who have had any experience at all of cards and card playing are well acquainted with the amusing game of Happy Families.
- I was beginning to regret letting him go first in a two player game of happy families.