1960s Parker Brothers Card Game

Flinch is a card game that was copyrighted by A.J. Patterson and then sold to Parker Brothers in 1936. He founded a business around the game called the Flinch Card Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The game was so wildly successful that stores had to make special signs reading “No Flinch Today" when they had run out of stock. American author, James Ball Naylor, wrote a poem called “Allurements of Flinch” crowning it as his favorite game. There is speculation that Patterson stole the game from Eugene Munger who profited little from its invention. Sometime during the 1960s, a plastic card holder was added for easier card management.