Quinks was an arithmetical game created by Jaques around 1890. The deck of 56 cards were dealt out evenly and left face down in a pile in front of each player. One card is placed in the centre of the table, face up. In turn, each player lifts their top card and sets it on the face up card and, if the number of these two cards combined equals 15 the first player to realise this must shout out ‘Quinks’! this player then collects all the cards and places them in their own bundle. If a player shouts Quinks and the addition is incorrect they must place all their cards in the centre of the table and others compete to take these or for the cardless player to win his back. In this instance, that is, winning of the main pack and the additional pack when the correct sum for 15 turns up the player must cry ‘Quinkall!’ and takes the lot. With agreement the game can also be played by adding three cards in succession, not just two. The winner is the person who wins all the cards but its hard to see how this could happen, given that those who run out of cards or who lose theirs through incorrect addition, can still compete to win back their cards! Truly a never ending game of quick fire arithmetic! This is a boxed set of 56 cards and the rules.