карточные игры

[hitori s. sabi]

Подскажите, пожалуйста, что это за карточные игры go fish и old maid. Спасибо.

[Иван О.]

old maid - "старая дева" (карточная игра; игроки подбирают и сбрасывают парные карты)

[Truth Seeker]

Go Fish
This game, often just known as Fish, is best for 3-6 players, but it is possible for 2 to play. A standard 52 card deck is used. The dealer deals 5 cards to each player (7 each for 2 players). The remaining cards are placed face down to form a stock.

The player to dealer's left starts. A turn consists of asking a specific player for a specific rank. For example, if it is my turn I might say: 'Mary, please give me your jacks'. The player who asks must already hold at least one card of the requested rank, so I must hold at least one jack to say this. If the player who was asked (Mary) has cards of the named rank (jacks in this case), she must give all her cards of this rank to the player who asked for them. That player then gets another turn and may again ask any player for any rank already held by the asker.

If the person asked does not have any cards of the named rank, they say 'Go fish!'. The asker must then draw the top card of the undealt stock. If the drawn card is the rank asked for, the asker shows it and gets another turn. If the drawn card is not the rank asked for, the asker keeps it, but the turn now passes to the player who said 'Go fish!'.

As soon as a player collects a book of 4 cards of the same rank, this must be shown and discarded face down. The game continues until either someone has no cards left in their hand or the stock runs out. The winner is the player who then has the most books.
There are variations of this game.

Old maid
This children's game can be played by two or more players. From a standard 52 card pack remove one queen leaving 51 cards. Deal and play are clockwise.

The dealer deals out all the cards to the players (generally some will have one more card than others - this does not matter). The players all look at their cards and discard any pairs they have (a pair is two cards of equal rank, such as two sevens or two kings).

The dealer begins. At your turn you must offer your cards spread face down to the player to your left. That player selects a card from your hand without seeing it, and adds it to her hand. If it makes a pair in her hand she discards the pair. The player who just took a card then offers her hand to the next player to her left, and so on.

If you get rid of all your cards you are safe - the turn passes to the next player and you take no further part. Eventually all the cards will have been discarded except one queen (the old maid) and the holder of this queen loses.

Old Maid is sometimes played with a special pack of cards: all the cards come in matching pairs except for a single Old Maid card, whose holder at the end is the loser.

[alexamel]

Кажется, "Old Maid" в России называлась "ведьма" (играть в "ведьму"), и дама была пиковая.

"Go fish" тоже была, но название точно не помню, может, "свинья"?.. Но помню прикол: американская подруга, живя в Москве и осваивая русский, называла ее "Иди рыба!". Мы ее так с улыбкой и вспоминаем до сих пор по этой фразе.

[Warda]

Old Maid is a Scabby Queen in scotland :)))

[alk]

А по-русски это кажется Акулина. :)

[natu]

old maid - это Акулина, а Go Fish - это Сундучки