The Game of Alice in Wonderland
The Game of Alice in Wonderland, subtitled "The dream-child moving through a land of wonders strange and new in a friendly chat with bird or beast and half believes it true", is a traditional card game published in 1882 by Selchow and Righter. It was the first card game to be published that was based on "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. Description. "The Game of Alice in Wonderland" uses a custom deck of 52 cards divided into three "suits": starred picture cards, plain picture cards, and numbered cards. Card ranking. The cards  are ranked by suit and by number (16 being the highest rank): Setup. The cards are shuffled, and each player is dealt seven cards. When cards run out, another seven cards are dealt, and this continues until all cards in the deck have been played. Gameplay. The first player leads any card, starred, plain or numbered. If the second player has its mate (a card of the same number, whether starred, plain or numbered), the mate must be played, and the higher-ranked cards defeat its mate. If the second player does not have its mate, the second player must  follow with a card of the same suit if possible. Other players play according to the same rules. If two or more picture cards are in play and a player has the mates to both, the player must play the mate of the first picture card played. Victory points. When the deck is exhausted and all cards have been played, players add up their victory points by examining the cards they have taken: The player with the most points is the winner Publication history. The children's book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll was first published in  both the UK and the US in 1865. Seventeen years later, in 1882, the American games company Selchow and Righter published what The Lewis Carroll Society of North America recognizes as the first game based on the book, "The Game of Alice in Wonderland". Recognition. Copies of the game are held in the special collections of: