Published card games
Newmarket
Gibsons
Newmarket is a card game published by Gibsons. It is played with 3 to 8 players and from age 8.
- players
- 3–8
- years
- 8+
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The box
- Publishers
- Gibsons, Waddingtons
- Also known as
- stops · boodle · Newmarket horses
About the game
Newmarket is an English card game of the matching type for any number of players. It is a domestic gambling game, involving more chance than skill, and emerged in the 1880s as an improvement of the older game of Pope Joan. It became known in America as Stops or Boodle before developing into Michigan. In 1981, Newmarket was still the sixth most popular card game in Britain.More from Gibsons
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- Skip-Bo · 1967
- Fortune · 1976
- 221B Baker Street · 1975
- Anti-Monopoly · 1973
- Britannia · 1986
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