On the market, there are a variety of children’s card games. These can be a lot of fun for kids because they usually come in bright colors and have fun designs. Many children’s card games, however, can also be played with a standard 52-card “adult” deck. Children can learn about numbers, point value, and suits by playing children’s card games with regular playing cards. Go Fish, Crazy Eights, and Old Maid are just a few of the many traditional children’s card games that can be played with a standard 52-card deck.
Go Fish is usually played in groups of two to five people. The two is low and the ace is high. Go Fish is a children’s card game in which only the numbers on the cards, not the suits, are used. The dealer distributes the cards to the players at the table, with four or five players receiving five cards each and two or three receiving seven cards each. In Go Fish, the remaining cards are piled face down in the center of the table.
A player is chosen to go first and asks any other player for any value card that he or she already owns at least one of. If a player has one or more of the requested cards, he or she must hand them over to the player who requested them. Jenna would have to give Garrett both of her sevens if Garrett asked for a seven and she had two sevens in her hand. Jenna would tell Garrett to “Go Fish” if she didn’t have any sevens. Garrett would then take the top card from the deck and play it. If he got a seven, he’d show the card to everyone and take another turn. He would keep the card if it wasn’t a seven, and Jenna would take her turn because she was the one who said “Go Fish.”
For children’s card games like Go Fish, the rules vary, but in most versions of the game, if the player asking for a card receives it, he or she continues to play until they no longer receive the cards they are asking for. When there are no more cards in the draw pile, or when a player runs out of cards, Go Fish is over. The player who has the most four-card groups that are all the same wins.
Each player is dealt seven cards in Crazy Eights. The remaining cards are shuffled and placed in the middle of the deck, with the top card facing up to begin the discard stack. In children’s Crazy Eights card games, if an eight is drawn, it must be returned to the deck and the next card drawn. The player on the dealer’s left begins by matching a card in his or her hand to the suit or value of the discard pile’s top card.
If the value or suit of a card in Crazy Eights cannot be matched, the player picks a card from the pile until a play can be made. In most versions of the children’s card game Crazy Eights, eights can be any value and any suit. When a player uses an eight, the new number value or suit must be called. The game is won by the player who runs out of cards first.
At least two players are required to play Old Maid. Any queens in the deck must be removed before the dealer deals out the rest of the cards. It is acceptable for a player to have an extra card. After viewing their cards, the players discard all pairs. At the beginning of each turn, a player lets the player to his left choose a card from his or her hand. The pair can be discarded if the card makes a pair. Each player is safe if he or she discards his or her cards. The game is won by the person who has the “Old Maid,” or extra queen.