Old Maid is a classic children's card game. It can be played by two or more players of almost any age using a standard deck of cards or one of the many specialized decks available. This is a great game to play with younger children. It reinforces matching skills and has them actively participating without the need for much assistance if any. The classic game of Old Maid is fun for any age. Players take turns swapping cards and making matches. But if you're stuck with the Old Maid at the end of the game, you lose! Great for young children who are learning how to count and match items. Includes 49 playing cards. It is a card-passing game where each player hopes not to end up with the odd card out - the Old Maid. Over the time however the simplicity of the game made it very popular with the kids age 5-10 years old. The game is played all over the world.

Old Maid^[2] is a Victoriancard game for two or more players probably deriving from an ancient gambling game in which the loser pays for the drinks. The game includes an element of bluffing.^{[citation needed]}

A very similar game is Black Peter, which is known in Germany as Schwarzer Peter or Schwarze Dame,^[3] in Sweden as Svarte Petter, in Norway as Svarteper, in Denmark as Sorteper, in Croatia as Crni Petar, in Slovenia as Črni Peter, in Hungary as Fekete Péter, in Czech Republic as Černý Petr, in Slovakia as Čierny Peter, in Bulgaria as Черен Петър, in Poland as Piotruś (pl), in Finland as Musta Pekka (fi) (all meaning 'Black Peter'), in Italy as Asino, in France as Le Pouilleux ('the lousy/louse-ridden one') or Vieux Garçon (literally 'old boy', but a de facto pejorative for a homosexual),^[4] or Mistigri,^[5] and in Japan as ババ抜き　(Babanuki).

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Rules[edit]

There are retail card decks specifically crafted for playing Old Maid, but the game can just as easily be played with a standard 52-card deck. When using a regular deck, a card is either added or removed, resulting in one unmatchable card. The most popular choices are to remove the ace or queen of hearts or to add a single joker.^[6] It is also possible to remove one card face-down from the top of the deck before hands are dealt; if this is done, players will not know which card is unmatchable. The unmatchable card becomes the 'old maid,' and whoever holds it at the end of the game is the loser.

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The dealer shuffles and deals all of the cards to the players, one card at a time. Some players may have one or two more cards than others; this is acceptable. Players look at their cards and discard any pairs they have (e.g., two kings, two sevens, etc.) face up.^[7] Players do not discard three of a kind. In common variants, the suit colors of a discarded pair must match: spades (♠) must match with clubs (♣) and diamonds (♦) must match with hearts (♥).

Beginning with the dealer, each player takes turns offering their hand face-down to the person on their left. That person selects a card without looking and adds it to their hand. This player then sees if the selected card makes a pair with any of their original cards. If so, the pair is discarded face up as well. The player who just took a card then offers their hand to the person on their left, and so on.

The objective of the game is to continue to take cards, discarding pairs, until no more pairs can be made. The player with the card that has no match is 'stuck with the old maid' and loses. When playing with more than two players, the game is somewhat unusual in that it has one distinct loser rather than one distinct winner.

Variants[edit]

• In some variants, all players discard only after the dealer has had their turn to take a card.
• Alternatively, play can proceed in reverse order, with players taking a new card before giving one up. In this variation, players can be stuck in 'old maid purgatory,' i.e. with one card and no way to get rid of it.
• A commonly marketed version of the game is called 'Donkey' in which the odd card is the Donkey and the rest of the set is made up of farmyard animals.
• A variant is called jackass, played with jacks instead of queens as the odd number of cards. It is known in Dutch as zwartepieten ('playing Black Pete') or pijkezotjagen ('Chasing the jack of spades'), in Polish as Piotruś ('Peter'), in Icelandic as Svarti Pétur ('black Peter'), in Czech as Černý Petr ('black Peter') and in Swedish as Svarte Petter ('Black Peter').
• In Greece the game is called 'mu(n)tzuris' (μου(ν)τζούρης, 'smudged, smutted'), because winners used to smudge the loser with soot.
• A variant in East Asia is called baba-nuki (ババ抜き, 'old maid') in Japan and dodukjapki (도둑잡기, 'catching the thief') in Korea. It is played exactly as old maid, but instead of removing a queen or any other card, a joker is added, and player who is left with it loses.
• A variant played in the Philippines, is called ungguy-ungguyan. The game is played as old maid except any card can be removed at the start of the game. That card is revealed at the end of the game and the person left with its 'partner' (the odd card) loses and is called unggoy (Tagalog for monkey). A similar variant exists in Indonesia by the name of 'Kartu Setan' which literally translates to 'Ghost Card', and in Japan by the name of jiji-nuki (ジジ抜き). It is seen in some anime, like baba-nuki; an example of this is in When They Cry.
• A variant from the United Kingdom is known as 'Scabby Queen'.^[8] When a player loses, the deck of cards is shuffled and cut: the card revealed determines the loser's 'punishment'. If a red card (heart or diamond) is chosen, then the player is rapped on the back of the hand with the deck. If a black card (spades or clubs) is chosen, then he has the entire deck scraped across his knuckles (known as snipes, and which may draw blood). The number of times this is performed is decided by the value of the card. Cards 2-10 carry face value, jacks and kings have a value of 10, aces are 11 and queens are 21. Today the game is often played under this name without the punishment, such as when parents are playing with their children.
• Another variant involving punishment is the Egyptian^{[citation needed]} 'Abu Foul' or 'blind king'; this follows roughly the same rules, except all Kings are removed except one. Multiple decks can be used depending on the number of players. Punishment is played two ways, depending on the group; wishes or strikes, chosen before the game starts. At the end, the cards are shuffled and spread and the loser pulls a card for every player. Pictures are worth 10, king 20. Strikes are to the hand outstretched, or wishes are short and simple, local to the area and usually involve some sort of mild humiliation.
• Another variant played in Turkey is called 'Papaz Kaçtı' with nearly the same rules.^[which?]
• In Brazil, two variants of the 'Old Maid' game are played: One called 'Fedor', literally 'Stink', played with a regular deck out of which one card has been removed; the other one, played with a specialty deck is called 'Jogo do Mico', or 'Capuchin Monkey Game'. The cards depict animals, each one having a male and a female card representation; only the capuchin monkey (mico) is unpaired.

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References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdeChildren's Card Games by USPC Co. Retrieved 22 Apr 2019
2. ^Not usually capitalised in UK or US English as shown by entries in encyclopedias and dictionaries, though some books uppercase many games. old maid in Encyclopædia Britannica, old maid (def. 2, no capitalisation) in Oxford Dictionaries, old maid in Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, old maid (def. 3, no capitalisation) in Merriam-Webster Dictionary
3. ^'Schwarzer Dame' in Encyklopädie der Spiele (1853) by Alversleben.
4. ^David Parlett, Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, in Russian as Акулина ('Ahkoolina'), pg. 181 Oxford University Press (1996) ISBN0-19-869173-4
5. ^Jean Boussac. The Mistigri or Cascaret - Old Maid Card Game, Paris, 1896. Transl. from French, 2017.
6. ^Dawson, L.; Hoyle, Edmund (1979). Hoyle's Card Games. Routledge. p. 234. ISBN0-415-00880-8. The Queen of Hearts is taken out of a full pack of cards, which is then dealt...
7. ^Sackson, Sid (1994). Card Games Around the World. Dover Publications. p. 61. ISBN0-486-28100-0. The cards are dealt one at a time until all are dealt. If some players have one more card than others it doesn't matter... The players look at their hands for pairs (such as two aces, two kings, etc.) and discard every pair they find face up on the table before them.
8. ^McAlpine, Fraser. '5 British Card Games You Should Learn'. BBC America. Retrieved 18 January 2020.

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