ONE-EYED MOTHERS-IN-LAW ARE WILD

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Posted by Chris Dunham.
September 22, 2005

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The monarchic structure of standard playing cards with King, Queen and Jack is now breaking apart by an Alaskan game designer who invented a new "democratic" deck with a 64-person family in six generations.

When Fyodor Soloview, a graphic designer from Alaska was searching his genealogy with the roots of Russian, German, and Ukrainian ancestors, he caught an idea that anybody's triangle-looking family tree could be used to create a new card game.

After a year of research and choosing a universal match for parents and children, husbands and wives, lifestyle and clothing, names and countries for the European family of immigrants to America, his idea has generated an innovative card game, "Six Generations."

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These cards may also be used to play "Strip Genealogy," though this is not advised.

Six Generations is available at Amazon.com .
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