Barks worked, partly as story director, on numerous cartoons during his employment at The Walt Disney Company's studios. In the examples presented below, Donald Duck plays different games.

Synopsis: Donald's attempt to show off his golfing ability to his nephews is defeated by their constant tricks and interruptions.

See the cartoon HERE.

Synopsis: Donald attempts to show off his professional ice hockey abilities to his nephews, but they get the best of him.

See the cartoon HERE.

Synopsis: The drafted Donald tries to outwit sergeant Black Pete by acting as the pea in the (in)famous shell game.

See the cartoon HERE.

Occasionally, Barks had several of his primary characters from the duck universe playing very diverse sorts of games, i.e. pastimes, in the stories. The collection below shows examples of some of the normal games - as well as some unusual games.

FC1055 Daisy's Dazed Days

Barks supplied all the material for a comic book issue starring Daisy Duck, which was published as FC1055 in 1959. In it, he tried his hand creating a rebus, a feat he never tried before or since. It can be speculated that because he was one page short of reaching the required number of pages for the book, he quickly dreamed up the puzzle page and jotted it down, as it bears no sign of his usual commitment to his work. And Barks also received the minimum payment, 31.50 dollars, for both idea and drawing...