1) Alternative to war 2) Card game 3) Card game for kids 4) Drawing game 5) English card game 6) Fussy female 7) Gambling game 8) Game for young matchmakers 9) Game spinster 10) Heroine of a Menotti opera 11) Marian, Hazel or Joan of Arc 12) War alternative
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[card game] Old maid is a Victorian card game for two to eight players probably deriving from an ancient gambling game in which the loser pays for the drinks. It is known in Germany as Schwarzer Peter, in Sweden as Svarte Petter, in Denmark as Sorteper, in the Hungarian language as Fekete Péter and in Finland as Musta Pekka (all meaning `B...
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simple card game popular with young children. It takes its name from a 19th-century specially illustrated deck of cards showing colourful characters ... [1 related articles]
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Old Maid is a card game for any number of players. A full deck of 52 cards is used from which the Queen of Hearts has been removed and the remainder dealt. Pairs are discarded and remaining cards are passed face down to the player to the left who picks one at random. Play continues until all cards have been played and one player is left holding the...
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[
n] - a person who is primly fastidious 2. [n] - a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed
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noun a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid`)
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