But I love that feeling when someone grabs the Old Maid and you see it slip out of your hand. It needs additional rules and mechanisms, something. It’s not like a reskin of it will do it any good. Maybe something with hidden roles like One Night Ultimate… Or maybe something like Good Cop, Bad Cop?Īny theme where the target card is something players don’t want and remains hidden in the game would be good. I would like to see this mechanism in a modern game. Drunk, cheating family 🙂 It’s obviously better with more players, especially if the whereabouts of the Old Maid is kept well hidden. Before play starts, each player shows and retires (lays face up) any pairs of like rank. To play: Deal all the cards out one at a time.
The cards: A regular 52-card deck, minus one queen.
Object: Not to be left holding the Old Maid. I played this again after this first play with my family. Number of players: Two to eight three or more is best. Pretty dull, at least people can say it has player interaction, that’ll keep them happy 🙂 Old Maid Summary You don’t want to give any clues to the other players who has it!Ī mechanism I would like to see brought up to date 🙂 Negatives Quite tense really, hard to keep a straight face when they draw the Old Maid.
