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. Players sort their cards and place any number or face card pairs face down in front of them. Some players may have more cards than others. Set Up Shuffle the cards and deal all of the cards face down. Drunk, cheating family 🙂 It’s obviously better with more players, especially if the whereabouts of the Old Maid is kept well hidden. Old Maid Ages 4+ 2-6 players Object To discard all of your cards and not get left holding the Old Maid card. I played this again after this first play with my family. 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 A merry menagerie of matching animals includes dancing cows and poodles, a rabbit that skates, a goat that cooks, and a pig that shops. Quite tense really, hard to keep a straight face when they draw the Old Maid.
