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PLUS the Donkey card and instruction card\n\n\nRules:\nBasic Rules for the game of OLD MAID\n\nIt is a simple card game that is a great favourite with young children.  It can be played with special cards or with standard playing cards.  It is a game for three or more players.\nThe objective of the game is to aim to discard all the players' cards as pairs.  The player who is left with the old maid card when play ends is the loser.  There is no winners in the game.\nSpecial decks of Old Maid cards consist of a single card with a picture of the `old maid' and pairs of cards showing other illustrations.  If standard cards are used, one of the queens is removed to leave the deck with an odd queen - the `old maid'.\n\nOne player deals all the cards face down, one at a time, to all players.  It does not matter if some players have one card more than the others.  Each player looks at his cards, making sure that none of the other players can see them.  If he has any pairs - two matching character cards or two playing cards with the same value - he lays them face down on the table.\nA player with three cards of the same value may only put down two of them and must keep the third, but a player with four cards of the same value may put doll all four cards as two pairs.\nThe player to the left of the dealer fans out his cards, keeping their faces towards him, and offers them to the player to his left.  The player who is offered the cards must take any one of them.  He then looks to see whether the new card pairs up with any of the cards already in his hand.  If it does, he lays the pair face down on the table.  If not, he adds the new card to the cards in his hand, fans out the cards and offers them to the player on his left.\nPlay continues in this way until all cards but the `old maid' has been played.  The player holding the `old maid' is the loser, and all the players call him `old maid' before a new game is started.\nVARIATION  To make the game last longer, cards may be considered as pairs only if their colour matches as well as their number.\n\nLE VIEUX GARCON\nThis French game is similar to old maid.  It is played with a standard deck of playing cards with the jacks of hearts, diamonds, and clubs removed.  The game is lost by the player left with the jack of spades-called le vieux garcon or old boy.\n\nBLACK PETER\nThis game is popular in Germany and is usually played with special cards but a standard deck can be used.  Special decks consist of a single BLACK PETER card often showing a fierce balck cat wearing boots and a hat and pairs of other cards showing different animals.  It is played in the same way with the loser being the one left with the Black Peter card.","briefDescription":"Old Maid type card game; Donkey; Card, English, Tower Press Products, 1960-69","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"a tower press product, with trademark","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["MISC.166-1987"],"accessionNumberNum":"166","accessionNumberPrefix":"MISC","accessionYear":1987,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-09","recordCreationDate":"2000-03-04","availableToBook":false}}