Catalogue information
Advertisements from 1941 describe this game as a 'Shadow Game'. The purchase price was NLG 2.25. The rules of the game bear the mention K 1090, which corresponds to the Luctor et Emergo printing company in The Hague. The German occupier had made it compulsory to state a code from 22 July 1941. Gerard Martens writes about this in his memoirs: At the end of 1941 the printing company was expanded with a publishing house. Luctor was the name. Games and picture books were printed and more products were added gradually. such as the building blocks and jigsaw puzzles. This firm needed extra help and the staff was expanded to include girls. One day the beauties were there and things changed in the general mood of the male community. The ladies of Luctor had to be taken into account. I cannot deny that it became even more fun at work. A lot had to be adjusted. The first game Luctor released was Silhouetta, a kind of happy birthday game. All those games had to be sorted and put in the boxes, of course. To this end, a few girls walked around a table and, while walking, collected the cards needed to complete a game. That was of course not an option and the technical service was asked to make a revolving table, so that the ladies could do their work while sitting. Owee if there was a card left at the end of the ride, or if one was too short. Then they had to open all the boxes and count the games. The printing house now got a lot of work printing games, jigsaw puzzles, booklets, etc., etc. ' The aim of the game is to form a complete set of 'SILHOUETTA'. Each of the cards has one of the letters of this word. The players are dealt a number of cards, and take one card from the staple in turn. Contents: one hundred cards with silhouettes, 162 score cards, game rules (one large and three playing cards with game rules).
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