Description

This is essentially a card-based game of Dominoes, using cards instead of plastic or wooden tokens. It is themed around the folk tale of the Old Woman and Her Pig, where an old woman goes to successive figures and encourages each one to do something to the previous one, creating a domino effect that will get her pig over a stile: the butcher killing the ox that drinks the water that quenches the fire that burns the stick...and so on.

Most of the 60 cards have a number of dots on one half (like dominoes) and a picture of a character on the other. Players can match numbers or pictures. Pictures are considered "doubles" and must be placed at right angles to the match.

The game ends when one player runs out of cards in their hand; that person then scores based on cards remaining in their opponents' hands. The game is repeated until someone reaches 100 and becomes the overall winner.

This game was released by Noble and Noble Co. as part of their "Games My Children Love Best" series. It is functionally 'identical' to "House that Jack Built," which was released simultaneously as part of the same series, albeit with different pictures on the cards.