Laughing Made Easy was originally a card game from David Ogilvy’s One Shilling series. David Ogilvy retired from his business as a maker of games in 1879. In that year he disposed of his games “to a London publisher”, unnamed by him at the time but who turned out to be John Jaques. Jaques then made a great success of the 12 Ogilvy One Shilling games Laughing Made Easy was also issued by Jaques c.1878. This games requires a pool and counters to pay for cards and win. There four suits with 12 cards in each and three cards which say Laughing, Made and Easy. To begin the game the player with the Laughing card commences, the idea being to rid yourself of the suits in your hand in sequence. When a stop occurs the Made card commences the game and then the Easy card. To liven up the game the suits have anecdotes printed round them, which were presumably thought witty at the time of publication but many seem dull now, including rather poor “Irish” jokes. These anecdotes do not form part of the game. The collection includes two packs of this game with 48 cards in each plus the rules.