The POOF-Slinky 0X8-3201 Ideal Old Maid Card Game is a timeless game perfect for younger children that involves simple card strategy and psychology. The object of Old Maid is to get rid of all the cards in your hand without being left with the one unmatched Old Maid card. The game starts when all the cards are dealt to each player. The players then looks at their hand and start discarding all matching pairs, face up in front of you. The player to the left of the dealer then offers their hand to the player on their left. This player takes (1) card from the offered hand and lays down any pair of matching cards that may be formed. Play continues with this player offering their hand to the next player and so on. One player will be left in the end with the Old Maid card who doesn’t have a match. Be the player with the most matching cards at the end of the game and you win. These king-sized cards are perfect for small hands to hold with colorful illustrations to make matching easy for younger children. Ideal"s Old Maid Card Game is designed for 2-6-players and includes (35) playing cards with instructions. Loved by children and trusted by parents for over 100-years, the Ideal brand provides a wide variety of games, activity kits, magic sets and classic toys that parents and grandparents remember from their own childhood years. The POOF-Slinky 0X8-3201 Ideal Old Maid Card Game is recommended for children 4-years of age and older. POOF-Slinky is the manufacturer of the world famous Slinky and the top selling POOF foam sport balls in North America, both manufactured in Plymouth, MI and Hollidaysburg, PA. Ideal and Scientific Explorer are other well-known brands, rounding out the POOF-Slinky family. With roots in the toy industry for over 100-years, POOF-Slinky brands continue to grow and broaden. New generations of kids, their parents and grandparents have proven that classic toys never go out of style!