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. (After removing one Queen from the deck, the odd Queen out is considered the Old Maid) Card Game Rules