A player is allowed to shuffle his hand before offering it to the player on his left. The player who just took a card then offers his or her hand to the person to their left and so on. If so, the pair is discarded face up as well. This player then sees if the selected card makes a pair with their original cards. That person selects a card and adds it to his or her hand. When playing with one card removed, this means one unique card is always the old maid instead of it possibly being any of the three remaining cards of that rank.īeginning with the dealer, each player takes turns offering his hand face-down to the person on his left. In common variants, the suit colors of a discarded pair must match: Spades ( ♠) with clubs ( ♣) and diamonds ( ♦) with hearts ( ♥).
Players look at their cards and discard any pairs they have (e.g., 2 kings, 2 sevens, etc.) face up. Some players may have more cards than others this is acceptable. The dealer deals all of the cards to the players.
