Top Trumps has descended from a card game known as Quartets. Quartets was actually designed as a tool for teaching children using pictures to make it more fun and so that the children understand much better.

Some time around 1976, a trumps brand was released in Germany. It was called as Ace. This game especially was targeted at boys and that’s why generally contained military or sports themes. The difference between Trumps and Quartets was that, in Quartets, the players had to win by collecting cards in sets of quarts, fours that are more in number than their opponents. Where as, in Trumps, the players could win by collecting all the cards from their opponents. The idea behind these games was that you could learn certain details and facts whilst playing, making learning extremely fun.

Then soon the Ace brand of cards came out with several types of cards and introduced the “Super Trump”. In Super trump, there used to be card that could beat all the other cards part from “A” irrespective of the data it contains. The combination of Quartets and Super Trumps led to the origin of the “Top Trumps”. This “Top Trumps” became especially popular and many companies started to manufacture different Top Trump cards with various features. The brand called as “Dubreq” was what made this game really popular and what we have fallen in love with.

Then this was followed by the release of various kinds of trumps cards like “Mini Trumps Fact Cards”, “Super Mini Top Trumps” etc that became very popular all over. They started to come with various themes like cars, aircrafts, etc. It used to be always the boyish subjects that were used as themes. These Top Trumps was especially made fro the boys to play.

The Waddingtons brand really started to become popular especially in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. It practically single-handedly revived this game from its plummeting popularity and made it what it is today. The markets began to be flooded with these Trumps cards and were owned by almost every kid in the U.K. The Waddingtons were very similar to the Dubreq in looks and style of marketing leaving a few alterations.

Now with the advent of technology, people not only play it the traditional way. These games are widely available online or also on your mobile phones. So now it is able to reach out to the wider audience world wide. Today these games are also available in play stations like Sony Playstation 2 , The Nintendo DS etc.

If that is not enough, the game was also featured in a television program where people could participate and play.
This is one game that is loved by one and all equally and it is difficult to find a kid who does not know of this game or has not played it. It has a universal appeal owing to its flexibility. Top Trumps is really fun and interesting and of course you can learn while you play!