The game applauds those key and essential workers who have saved Britain during the pandemic, from doctors and nurses to less high-profile professions such as pest controllers, midwives and sea merchants.
One of the four scoring sections in the new game is ‘Unsung Heroes’ - and in that category it is the partners of key workers who come out top. They get a maximum 10 out of 10.
In its card citation Top Trumps point out that being a partner of a key worker is ‘stressful and worrying’.
Claire Simon, from Top Trumps, says: “Every single front-line key worker is, of course, a heroine and hero and would each score 10 (or even 11) out of 10 by any reckoning if we had devised a Hero category.
“By creating an Unsung Heroes category we have ensured varying marks, in keeping with the game’s core classic and its unique and much-loved branding.
“From our research, which has been intensively conducted over the six weeks, partners of key workers came out top in this section. There are an estimated one and a half million partners of key workers in Britain so that’s a lot of Unsung Heroes and Heroines.
Top Trumps Britain at its Best: Key Workers is available priced £5 from winningmoves.co.uk and comes in a twin deck (the other pack being Britain at its Best: Hospitals).