Tints

Tints was called ‘A series of games with Colours’ and the rules outline a variety of games that can be played with its special card deck: DIT (trick-taking for 2 players), TRADERS, WAYWEE, SNAPPERS and CHROMO WHIST (trick-taking for 3/4 players).

The Tints deck contains 28 cards in 5 suits: Blue (7 cards), Red (7 cards), Green (5 cards), Yellow (5 cards) and Brown (4 cards). Each card represents a different shade of the color suit it belongs to (the darker the shade, the higher the rank).

This game was published in the 1880s by Jaques of London.