Popular Characters from Dickens

2–6 players · 20 min

Not to be confused with "Characters from Charles Dickens," this is a card game from circa 1889. There are 37 cards in six sets of six, plus one Dickens card. Each set consists of a book card (Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, and David Copperfield) and 5 character cards. Players ask each other for needed cards to complete a set, with the Dickens card doubling the value.

Milton Bradley also produced a facsimile edition in 1970.

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