Not many games companies can claim to have been as influential as Jaques' during the last 215 years. In our more than 200 years of business, we have invented Croquet, Ping Pong, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, Tiddledy Winks and perhaps the games most synonymous with the Jaques' name - Happy Families and Snap. The illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, chief illustrator of 'Punch' magazine and the original artist for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland', but perhaps the game most synonymous with the Jaques' name - Happy Families. The instantly recognizable faces of Mr Grits the Grocer, Mr Bun the Baker and all the other families have made this game into a worldwide success. Played by people of all ages, 4 to 104, these vividly imagined characters are still being purchased as strong as ever, more than a hundred years later.