How to play Old Maid (Card Game)

Learn the rules to the card game Old Maid quickly and concisely - This visually rich video has no distractions, just the rules.
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RULES:
The object of the game is to not be the player at the end of the game holding the joker. Setup: Shuffle a standard deck of playing cards with 1 joker and deal all the cards evenly to each player. Players look at their own cards but keep them hidden from others. Players sort through their cards, making as many pairs as possible, and placing these pairs face-up on the table in front of them.
The dealer goes first, then play proceeds clockwise. On your turn, fan out your cards, making sure no one else can see them. The player to your left pick one of your cards. As players make pairs in their hand, they discard them faceup to the table immediately.
Once it is impossible to make more pairs, the game ends and the player with the joker, the old maid, loses.

[@aipa1560]

I played the game with a twist. The twist is playing the game with 3 queens with 2 queens being able to be paired. Another ending: if you have the last pair, you lose.

[@crookedsmile4886]

Oh interesting

[@RainMakeR_Workshop]

I’m more familiar with the version with a queen being the old maid card

[@aipa1560]

Our comments are pairs because our comments mean playing old maid with a new rule! I love pairs.

[@crookedsmile4886]

Interesting how would that work since the Queen is 2 sets of pairs

[@antwanpelmer]

Joker or queen then if yo cards matchh

[@waiyisit]

@@crookedsmile4886 remove 1 of the queen cards before dealing.

[@jetx_47]

I like making it unknown what the old maid card is

[@harm3825]

Here in the Netherlands, we have a similar game called ‘zwartepieten’. It’s with all the cards with value 7 or higher, except for the jack of clubs. The player who has the jack of spades at the end loses

[@LittleLuckyRaindrop]

Thank you! This was super helpful. I can't wait to play it with my friends!

[@timothygiese6726]

Here's a gameplay twist for you to try. Take both jokers out of the deck. Shuffle the deck thoroughly. While the deck is face down, discard a card from the deck. It will remain face down and out of the game. Deal the cards, and play as normal.

[@93toInfinityyy]

This is how my family n friends play

[@va960]

I played this before- but when we play, we just remove one card from the deck

[@lmcc6089]

How do you deal them evenly if you add the joker? Wouldn’t you have to remove a card?

[@Daved420]

1 year late but the website said you don't need to have an equal number of cards

[@jetx_47]

I like making it unknown what the old maid card is by discarding a random non-joker card no one sees

[@IsaaacWithThreeA]

That sounds fun.

[@jaykay8426]

New rule idea: Double Maid! Use 2 jokers instead of 1. Same rules as Normal, except once you made all the pairs you can, trade your pairs with your opponents. If you have the most pairs you win, but if you have the pair of jokers in first place you instantly lose and the second place player wins. Simple, but there’s a catch, if the person with the least pairs has the pair of jokers, they win no matter how many pairs the leading player(s) have.

[@maxwellquipey1]

So adding a motive for players to meet the conditions of losing instantly, seems interesting

[@lookaway00]

A way to play this is to remove the top card on a shuffled deck so that the card without a pair is random.

[@nightlightworld9964]

Yeah but if you don't use joker don't you think it's no fun anymore since you have to only rely on luck and not by trying to understand your friends mind psychologically? If you get the joker for example you might let out a slight reaction exposing that you possess the joker. If it's random, you can't really try to hide your expressions

[@nishishastri1135]

If there are 53 cards how will we distribute it evenly

[@thedoctor1325]

I never played but I believe it's just deal as evenly as you can. So for 4 players, the hands will be 13, 13, 13 and 14.

[@isekaiquartet5495]

Hello fellow Filipino people, kinda similar with "unggoyan" right? Note: unggoy means "monkey" and you will just be called a "monkey" if everyone has already put down pair/s aside from you whose remaining card is same with the "missing" card.

[@hiyorikuyamarurin3141]

Even more fun when done with uno cards hahahha

[@isekaiquartet5495]

@@hiyorikuyamarurin3141 very true lol

[@leticianacianceno3022]

But how do you determine who wins then?

[@thedoctor1325]

Only 1 loser. No winner necessarily.

[@Flightofphenomena]

Thanks Broskiw

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

Actually wouldn't the one with the Old Maid just be ONE of the losers? I mean to WIN you have to be the first to get rid of all your cards right?

[@Sarathewise158]

I haven't played, but based on the video it looks like every card except the Joker will be able to be paired, meaning the only lower will be whoever holds that one. The face cards seem to pair based on opposite colors.

[@x_rhyan]

I'm not sure but isn't this like gofish

[@danielleanderson6371]

It's similar, yes. In Go Fish you're trying to get the most pairs by asking for specific cards. In Old Maid the pairs don't really matter as much as the card that cannot be paired.

[@crookedsmile4886]

Close just with a joker

[@Seahawks-fan765]

​@danielleanderson6371 how do u know who wins tho in this game

[@Seahawks-fan765]

​@crookedsmile4886 how do u know who wins tho

[@LuxisAlukard]

NIce

[@Adwik_Mishra]

Came after reading second chapter of Kaguya sama xD

[@shannonmalayajones7649]

clothes dressing up not to be half dressed when they laugh at ya.

[@lesliehilesgardener6959]

Hahaha u loose hahaha 🤣🤣🤣

[@lesliehilesgardener6959]

I never minded getting the old maid hahaha still caring for them hahaha 🤣

[@crookedsmile4886]

Thank you. This is one of the few carfax games I've never played and never knew anyone who played to teach me

[@GreggoryL]

Oh, Bulgaria actually has a game like that! The only difference is that we call it "черен Петър" or "black Peter"!

[@gautam8072]

Do you know that game with 1 detective 1killer 2 or more common people where killer kills common people and detective has to catch him?

[@megalisa830bright6]

Yeah! I think I've played that game with my family at holiday parties! ^_^ I think that it's called 'Mafia'! :D

[@sparkyshore3543]

@@megalisa830bright6 yeah, that's Mafia.

[@hokkyokugumar6946]

thanks, very informative

[@some1112]

I play this game with my friends but its a bit different. The only difference is there is no joker, and the king is the old maid card. We take 3 kings from the deck and play with 1 king whoever has the king in his hand at the end loses

[@damdoumatube5675]

Same

[@Seahawks-fan765]

​@@damdoumatube5675 how do u know wins tho

[@thedoctor1325]

​@@Seahawks-fan765 It's a game with 1 loser, not a winner. I guess you could think of it as anyone not holding the joker or king for this comment is the winner.

[@Seahawks-fan765]

@@thedoctor1325 ya I gues

[@Sharky_0456]

why not the queen? wouldnt that make more sense within the title of the game

[@Dhorannis]

There is a very similar game in Germany called "Schwarzer Peter" (lit. Black Peter, which might have some slightly racist undertones tbh). The difference is that you don't use a joker, but instead remove the jack of spades from the deck. Also, you can only form pairs with cards that have a matching colour (e.g. queen of hearts and queen of diamonds). The one who has the jack of clubs in the end loses.

[@jackmehoff9957]

Hahaha! Spade

[@LoriSimpsonVideos]

This sounds simple, straight forward and fun enough. I live in a nursing home and just made a new friend who likes to play games but we need to stick with very easy stuff for certain reasons. I think we can both handle this,maybe. I'll bring it up to her and see if she wants to give it a shot!

[@nightlightworld9964]

I think you need minimum 3 players to play this game..?

[@teamstudios]

Awesome. Well explain. Thanks.

[@J-Excel]

This is what I want to learn right now!

[@angelajordan3883]

Thanks for keeping it short and sweet!

[@MelB868]

They make old maid cards with different jobs and stuff on them and has a picture of an old maid not a joker I didn't even know you could play it with normal cards

[@ghefersoncurva]

If you watched the show/movie joker game 1 you know this

[@Qweet_]

can it be played with only 2 players? and odd number of players? like 3 or 5

[@TheInkPitOx]

Very easy to learn. Thank you.

[@Chase4everChase]

Thank you for your excellent instructions. 🙂 (Chase)

[@bhagyadoshi182]

We call it Gulam Chor. Just instead of Joker its Jack.

[@werrutkyupnext]

I lose so often this ain’t fun anymore

[@veruca673]

i played the one from fun card games 6

[@latieldenegall6392]

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh I get it

[@niconixx3964]

In the Philippines (idk if this was with my family or with the whole country) we have this game called “unggoy-unggoy” where we shuffle a 52-card deck and remove one card and with the same rules as old maid and whoever has the last card loses

[@j.mattlakes7792]

What if no one has a joker at the end of the game?

[@thedoctor1325]

it shouldn't be possible, someone has to have it.

[@vijaysrini27]

We have also played this. But we don't play with Joker. Instead, we discard *ONE* card from the entire deck, and that card is not used for the rest of the game. The player who finishes his cards first wins, and the player who has a card left loses. And the face value of card turns out to be the same as face value of the discarded card.

[@ogmc626]

Played this at christmas, unfortunately we had to play old bachelor as there are no old maids in our family. Any ideas where I could get an old bachelor card ?

[@18_humss_sgm_angeles69]

In the philippines it is called "ungoy ungoyan" wich means monkey monkey the last player who makes the last pair is the monkey.

[@toobad_sosad]

Tbh when I saw the time span on this video, I thought the game was like 52 card pickup where it wasn't an actual game

[@IIT24Aspirant]

SpyXFamily?

[@le_Bizarre]

Can you please make a bridge video? I bought a book full of illustration, and understood nothing out of it.

[@poonamdhurve3143]

Awesome explanation. Short and simple 😊

[@avakaipizza]

Old maid deck is different from standard 52 card deck

[@swatibajpai3140]

B. Co m. 2nd. Y e. A. R

[@kieranboyone3519]

I always hated playing old maid cause no matter how many times I play it I always lose, whether its at the beginning of the game close to the end of the game