Car-Soc: The New Game of Card Soccer
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1930s - 1950s
Car-Soc: The New Game of Card Soccer is a published card game dating from the 1930s to 1950s, originating from London. The set is produced using printed card and turned wood components.
The game consists of blue and red playing cards, green card shapes featuring nine slots, and wooden counters in pink and blue. The components are housed in an illustrated green box that includes compartments designed to store the playing cards and counters. The set is accompanied by a grid-patterned playing surface board. The manufacturer's title designates the game as 'car-soc : the new game of card soccer', designed to simulate football play through card and counter mechanics.
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Historical context
The game was designed for two players or pairs, with rewards scored as goals and forfeits as missed goals. Required equipment comprises the cards, a playing surface board, eleven blue counters, and eleven pink counters. The cards were originally issued without the playing board.
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- car-soc : the new game of card soccer
- Museum object number
- MISC.671-1988
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.