Last Card

Simple card game. All cards but 1 have a double. Match them to win.

This is a very simple game, that even small children can play.

Match the card with the same face, but different colors to throw them out of your pack. Whoever throws all their cards wins. But there is a catch - 1 card does not have a double. Unlike the rest, this card is black.

How to play:

1) At the start of every game all cards are shuffled and distributed among the players.

2) Find all the matching cards in your hand and click on them to throw them down. Your opponent will do the same.

3) Your opponent will take one of your cards and then match it with one of his (if possible).

4) After that, you should take one of his cards by clicking on it. Then go back to step 2): find the matching card (if possible) and throw them both down (by clicking on them both).

5) This will continue until one of you has no cards - he wins. The person holding the last card looses!

This game, or version of it with the same goal: to discard all matching pairs cards, until no more pairs can be made is popular in many countries, but with different name. In English speaking countries when you are left with the last card they say that you are "stuck with the old maid".

Popular names of this game are:

Old Maid / Black Peter / Donkey / Jackass / Scabby Queen - in English

Schwarzer Peter / Schwarze Dame - in German

Le Pouilleux / Vieux Garçon / Mistigri / Le Pissous / Le Puant / Pierre Noir / Le Valet Noir - in French

Asino / Asinello / Scecco / Gambadilegno - in Italian

Svarte Petter / Svarta Maja - in Swedish

Svarte Per - in Norwegian

Zwarte Piet / Sorteper - in Danish

Svarti Pétur - in Icelandic

Zwartepieten / Pijkezotjagen / Zwartepiet - in Dutch

Musta Pekka / Pekka-pelikortit - in Finnish

Papaz Kaçtı - in Turkish

ババ抜き (Babanuki) - in Japanese

潛烏龜 / 坏 庀特 - in Chinese

Czarny Piotruś - in Polish

Fekete Péter - in Hungarian

Černý Petr - in Czech

Черный Питер - in Russian

Черен Петър - in Bulgarian

Crni Petar - in Croatian

Čierny Peter - in Slovak

Črni Peter - in Slovenian

อีแก่กินน้ำ - in Thai

Piekezottn - West Flemish

μου(ν)τζούρης = mu(n)tzuris / Μαύρος Πητ - in Greek

Unggoy-Ungguyan - in Filipino

Culo sucio - in Spanish

João Bafodeonça - in Portuguese

João Bafo de Onça - in Portuguese (Brazil)

Boris - in Indonesian