The player left of the dealer tries to make another pair with this new card. The player left of the dealer then chooses one random card from the other players hand and add it to their own. The dealer then holds out their hand facing down (so that no one can see the cards) towards the player to their left. How to PlayĪfter everybody receives their cards, players make any pairs they can with their hand and place them facing down on the table. The dealer then passes all of the cards one by one clockwise to each player.

The dealer then shuffles the deck and the player to their right cuts it. The dealer first removes one Queen from the deck in order to designate the “Old Maid”. For the dealer process Aces are high and 2s are low. To do so, every player is given a card from a shuffled deck and who ever receives the highest card becomes the first dealer. Set Upīefore the game begins an initial dealer must be chosen. If you are looking for cards to play Old Maid with, check out a standard pack here or one of our specialty Old Maid packs here. The objective of the game is to pair up all of your cards and to avoid having the odd Queen out by the end of the game.įor more classic card games, check out our guides for Go Fish and Solitaire. Old Maid is a card matching game played with 2 or more players and a standard 52 playing card deck. It's funny, and as a kid it was both funny and scary.(After removing one Queen from the deck, the odd Queen out is considered the Old Maid) Card Game Rules It's a fun film, try it some time, it has Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr., and Vincent Price does the voice of the Invisible Man at the end of the film. Watching Abbott and Costello was a good way of being introduced to these guys. To this day I enjoy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and that was my first real exposure to the film monsters. My next exposure to the Universal Monsters was through watching Abbott & Costello at my grandparents' house on Sundays after church. I mean, they were mostly the disembodied heads of monsters, and when you're four or five years old it's scary! I sometimes wonder what happened to those cards.

I'd look at these cards and get scared and a few were creepy.

The game must have belonged to one of my aunts. Yes, in 1964 Milton Bradley released a monster version of Old Maid! I found this card game at my grandparents' house when I was a little kid in the mid-1970s.

Monster old maid cards