Old Maid

👯 Pairs

One queen is taken out of the deck before the deal, so one queen can never be paired: she is the Old Maid. Two cards of the same number or letter make a pair, and pairs go aside by themselves.

🃏 Your turn

Take one card from the hand on your right: tap any of its backs. If it makes a pair with one of yours, the pair goes aside. Then the next player takes a card from you.

😌 Safe

Run out of cards and you are safe. When you are safe, the 🤖 play the rest at once.

👵 The Old Maid

At the end one player is left holding the odd queen. That player is the Old Maid and loses; everyone else is safe. The dealer is picked at random each game.

🤖 The computer

A 🤖 cannot see your cards either, so it picks any card at random. Old Maid is a game of luck: there are no hard or easy levels.

📜 The rules

🖨️ A card for the table

Print the rules on one sheet, fold it into a card and keep it in the deck box. One side, no scissors. Open the printable rules card

🏅 Your games

🔄 Start over

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