Talk:Old maid (card game)

message: There's a bit of a conflict between this and  Old Maid, the card game. Looking up Old Maid instantly takes you to the spinster page, making this article much harder to find. There's also only a capital letter difference. I'm posting this on the SPinster discussion page as well. I think someone with a better knowledge of wikipedia style etc. to possibly make a redirect or mention of some kind. Vadigor 21:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Maid (card game) 

message: It doesn't exactly says what happens if you don't have a pair. So what do you do, pass? --Hanaichi 10:09, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes and then you offer your hand to your left hand neighbour to take a card as normal. Bermicourt (talk) 19:16, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erm... 

message: Many European langage call the game Black Peter. The German Wikipedia suggests this was named after a criminal in 1811. So was the game invented after then? A mention of this would be good as it is often believed that the name is of racist origin, though cards were often depicted as a stereotyped negro and the name is used pejoratively by some this belief about a racialized origin is wrong.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.162.68.114 (talk) 02:56, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: That's right. An example of uninformed prejudice and postmodern thinking trumping the facts. Before assuming anything with "black" in it is automatically racist, it's always wise to ask "why?" and investigate. In this case Black Peter the card game is almost certainly named after Johann Peter Petri, a (white) German highwayman known as Old Black Peter, probably because he was once a charcoal burner. Bermicourt (talk) 19:25, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black Peter 

message: I think it could also be played with Uno cards. I mean like using the Uno cards to play Old Maid, because you mentioned that it could be played with a deck poker cards. 
The same color and symbol cards are a pair, then you can use a color switch as a left out, to be the Old Maid. But using all the cards are a bit too much, so maybe using only 1/3 of the deck, and make sure all could be paired except for the Old Maid (color switcher) card. 
Try that out with friends and see if it works, so that you can play both Uno and Old Maid with the same deck of cards!
—Hedyhyry (talk) 07:29, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Maid with Uno 

message: it would be nice if a complete deck was availble,as high quality image if possible in public domain.85.149.83.125 (talk) 11:34, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  full deck 

message: According to Ngram Viewer, the spelling "Old Maid" for the game appears to be overwhelmingly more common that "old maid" in English WP:RS viz:
* "played Old Maid" is around 10 times more common that "played old maid" - see here
* "game of Old Maid" is over 12 times more common than "game of old maid" - see here 
* "playing Old Maid" is from 2-5 times more common than "playing old maid" - see here
A search on "old maid" v. "Old Maid" doesn't work because the term "old maid" is clearly used to refer to a spinster, etc.,  and so we can't pick out the gaming references. Bermicourt (talk) 21:57, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  old maid v. Old Maid