Қарта ойындары: "Ескі қыз" және оның түрлері

Card game
the American game This was boosted in England when proprietary cards emerged with nursery rhyme figures in 1883 under the name Merry Matches which, according to Bazaar, Exchange and Mart was a "newly invented game", despite its obvious derivation from Old Maid.

A specific card is removed, typically any Queen card, e. g. Queen of Hearts. A joker is added to the pack. This card acts as the Old Maid. A card is removed from the pack at random. The resulting, unknown, unmatchable card becomes the Old Maid. The suit colours of a discarded pair must match: with ; with Players discard only after the dealer has taken a card. Players take a new card before giving one up. This can result in a player being stuck in "old maid purgatory", i. e. with one card and no way to get rid of it.

Scabby queen is a modern variation of Old Maid played with a standard pack of cards from which the queen of clubs has been removed. The player left with the "scabby queen" (Q) is the loser and receives a number of raps on the knuckles with the edge of the pack. The number of raps is decided by reshuffling the pack and getting the loser to draw a card. He or she get the number of raps based on the face value of the card or, if it is a jack or king, 10 raps; if it is a queen, 21 raps. If the loser draws a red card, he or she receives soft raps; if a black card, hard raps. Scabby Queen is recorded in 2002 as a game played in Perthshire, Scotland, but also known as Raps in Derbyshire, Raps or Chase the Bitch in Staffordshire, and Executioner in Hampshire. It some parts of Britain it is called Chase the Ace, but that is also the name of a different game.

The equivalent game in many European countries is known (in each country's own language) as "Peter" or "Black Peter", and is often played with special cards, typically 31 or 37, in which the odd one out is typically a chimney sweep or a black cat. The game can also be played with a standard 32 card pack from which a black jack is removed. The loser often gets a smudge on his or her face with a piece of soot or piece of burnt cork.

Trinidad: Jackass. The J is removed leaving the J as the odd card. The player left holding it is the "jackass". Turkey: Papaz kaçtı ("Priest eloped"). As Old Maid, but king is removed instead of queen or knave.