Hūsker Dū? is a young children's memory game published in Denmark and also later Sweden in the 1950s, and is still in print. The name means "Do you remember?" in Danish and Norwegian.
The game board consists of a surface with holes in it, laid on top of a dial which contains small pictures. The dial is rotated before the start of the game, so that each image falls under a hole. Each hole is covered up by a marker. On a player's turn, he or she re...
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Hūsker Dū? is a young children's memory game published in Denmark and also later Sweden in the 1950s, and is still in print. The name means "Do you remember?" in Danish and Norwegian.
The game board consists of a surface with holes in it, laid on top of a dial which contains small pictures. The dial is rotated before the start of the game, so that each image falls under a hole. Each hole is covered up by a marker. On a player's turn, he or she removes two markers to reveal the pictures underneath. If the images match, the player gets to take the two markers as their score. If there is not a match, the markers are replaced and the next player takes his or her turn. The winner is the player who takes the most pawns.
The name of the game is spelled with macrons to lend an exotic Scandinavian feel, a practice later adopted by Häagen-Dazs ("zs" actually being unique to Hungarian), Frusen Glädjé, and the like. (In actuality, no Scandinavian language is spelled with macrons, although some...
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