Players:
3-6
Ages:
5-10
Place:
Table or other flat surface
Equipment:
1 deck of VoWac Alphabet Playing Cards
Old Maid is the
one of the easiest card games to play and learn.
It’s 100 percent luck – no skill at all is required to win.
VoWac has
included a special “ant” card to be used as the Old Maid so that all of the card
pairs can be used for letter recognition.
Everyone
picks a card, and the one who draws “a” or closest to “a” shuffles
and deals out all the cards, one at a time and facedown.
It’s fine if some players have more cards than others do.
The
players look at their hands and pull out any two cards that match (the
same letter symbol/saying). Each
player lays his matches facedown in a pile beside him.
After
everyone has sorted out their matches, the player to the dealer’s left
makes a fan out of the cards in her hand, making sure that no one can see
which cards she holds. The player to her left must then choose a card from
the first player’s hand, hoping that the new card will match a card in
his own hand. If a match is
made, the pair goes into the player’s facedown pile.
Now the player who just chose offers up his cards to the next
player to the left. Play goes
around in a circle, with players picking cards from one another and making
matches to lay down. Since
there is only one Old Maid (ant), no match can be made for it.
At the end of the hand, the player left holding the Old Maid (ant)
loses the game.
Over
the course of the game, the Ant is likely to change hands several times.
If a player picks the Ant from another player’s hand, he can only
hope that another player will pick it from him before the hand is over.
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