Games Guide to Christmas Gifts

Christmas Indoor Games - the begining John Jaques' son was the ingenious mind behind most of these Gifts and Games pursuits, inventing the games of Happy Families, Tiddley -Winks, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders - and developing a very large demand for dominoes, draughts and backgammon, all of which the company produced.

While JJ One (as the family refer to him) will always be recognized for his major contribution to chess another Famous Christmas gift, the subject of a subsequent chapter, the son was undoubtedly his father's equal in imagination, craftsmanship and enterprise.