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Calling all gift shoppers who know a Joseph: We've got his game in stock! It's literally just been released in the last few days and it's a perfect stocking filler, secret santa or Christmas gift for your Joseph. Type Joseph into the search box or head to our shop to browse all available First Name Games. Christmas starts here!

Unbelievable but true! On the day that she launches the Conservative manifesto, we can exclusively reveal something that people don't know about Theresa May.

It turns out that the second female British Prime Minister is (in true panto style) a bloke in disguise. At least in name. And as our fun-loving customers well know, we love having fun with names.

Anyway here's the low down on Theresa May:

You see the surname May derives from the surname Mayhew which is turn comes from Matthew. So with Pythonesque logic, we find our country is surprisingly ruled by a lady called Matthew.

I know, you'll never look at her the same way again.

Incidentally, the name Theresa has Greek origins and means ‘huntress’. Perhaps someone should have warned Jeremy Corbyn about that before he volunteered to be Matthew’s hapless prey in the race to be the next Prime Minister....

You'll find more intrigue and fun with names stuff here: Happy Families

The first version of Scrabble wasn't called Scrabble. It was called 'Lexiko'. The name Lexiko was inspired by the Greek word Lexicos which means 'words'. Lexiko was somewhat similar to Scrabble although Lexiko was played without a board.

Lexiko was refined by its inventor, (a man by the name of Alfred Mosher Butts), and a board was added. Alfred was obviously thinking about crossword puzzles at this stage because he called this new version 'Criss-Cross Words'.

(As we're writing about Scrabble, we have tried to find a decent anagram of 'Alfred Mosher Butts'. It seemed appropriate. The best we could come up with was "Loser bashed Mr. Tuft". A free game from this site to anyone who can help us out and beat that).

Anyway, Alfred Butts failed to hit the big time with "Criss-Cross Words" but some years later a Criss-Cross Words player tweaked the game and renamed it Scrabble. He made a few sets and by great good fortune, the boss of a chain of stores played Scrabble on holiday. And loved it. And placed a big order. And the rest as they say, is history.......

Easter. Chocolate mini-eggs! Chocolate big eggs! Chocolate creamy eggs! Eggy chocolate! Chocolate everywhere! Can't wait! But hang on, what are you going to be doing after you've found and guzzled all that gorgeous chocolate ? Here's an idea: Get some family card games going. We've got loads of great games to keep you busy, come and take a look! Here's a card from one of them:

The task of rousing slumbering teenagers has never been easy but tends to get even trickier towards the end of term. That's fast approaching so Mums and Dads, we just want say that we feel your pain. But hey, that's how it is in Happy Families!

Here's a card from the Williams family edition of our unique Happy Families card games. (There are currently 23 other surnames available in the range).