Helsinki Card Game

On Friday I stopped in one of the shops on Bulevardi I pass every day but never enter. I looked around a bit and noticed an interesting deck of cards which claimed to be a Helsinki version of 8 perhettä ja junnu [8 happy families and junnu]. I was curious so I bought a deck. There are 32 cards in the deck, 4 people/families from 8 different neighbourhoods of Helsinki, and Junnu. The way to play the game:

The objective of the game is to collect card pairs of the same colour and district. The cards are dealt and players with-for example two red Alppila cards- put their pairs down. Next, the dealer lifts a card from the player on the left. If the card completes a pair, the pair is put down. Play continues until all the pairs have been formed. The player left holding the Junnu card loses.

It's a cute if not terribly challenging card game. I've been thinking about subjecting Jarkko to playing Scrabble in Finnish if I can find the game here with the abundance of k, ä and ö Finnish words require.

24 Nov 2003 at 15:32, Helsinki