Give Yourself a Hand! Card Games for Kids Quiz

Answer: Four of a kind

In Go Fish, each player gets seven cards if there are two or three players, otherwise they get five each if there are four or more players. The rest of the deck is put face down in the middle of the table. On your turn, you can ask any one of the other players if they have any cards of a certain value that you want. If they do, they then give you all the cards of that value, e.g., if you ask for Kings and they have two Kings, they give you both and you add them to your hand. If they have none, they say "go fish" or just "fish." Then you draw the top card from the deck.

When you get four cards of the same kind, you make a book, which you put face up in front of you. Play continues until all the cards have been made into books. Whoever has the most books wins.

Answer: Not to be left holding a special odd card

This game can be played with specially made cards or an ordinary deck of cards with one card removed, usually a queen. Two or more people can play. All the cards are dealt out until there are none left. Each player removes as many matching pairs of cards (but not three of a kind) from their hand as they can and places them face up.

Then, the dealer offers their hand, spread out face down, to the player on the left, who draws one card. If the player can use the new card to make a pair, they remove the pair from their hand.

The player then offers their own hand to the player on their left. Play continues like this, until there is only one card left. That is, if a queen was removed at the beginning of the game, then there will be one queen left over.

The player holding that card, which is called the Old Maid, loses the game. The saying "old maid" used to refer to a woman who never married, which was considered an unhappy lot in life - although this might depend on what you think of marriage!

Answer: Uno

The object of Crazy Eights (also called Crazy Aces in a slightly different version) is to be the first to get rid of all your cards. Two or more people can play. Each player starts with five cards, while the rest of the pack is put face down in the middle of the table.

The top card of the deck is turned over and the first person to play must try to match that card with a card of the same value or suit. If they cannot play a card, they pick up cards one at a time from the top of the deck until they get a card they can play. Wild cards, usually eights (or aces in some versions) can be played on any card and the player says what suit they want it to be.

In some versions of the game, when someone plays a two, the next player must either play a two or pick up two cards and pass their turn. If a second two is played, the next player must either play a two or pick up four cards! This can continue until everyone runs out of twos. Additionally, playing a jack reverses the order of play.

The commercial game Uno adapted these rules by creating special cards in place of eights, twos, and so on, e.g., special cards printed "wild," "draw 2," "skip," and so on.

Answer: No

War is a game of luck only; there is no skill. The whole deck is dealt out evenly between two players. Each player simply plays the top card from their pile face up without looking at it first. The cards are then compared: whoever has the higher card wins and adds the two cards to the bottom of their pile. (The suit of the card does not matter.) If the two cards are the same value, then there is a "war" in which each player places a card face-down (in some versions they place three cards face down), then plays one face up.

The higher of these two cards wins all the cards that have been played, including the face down ones. If they are again the same value, the war is repeated until someone wins. Whoever finishes with all the cards in the deck wins the game.

Answer: One card

This game is also known by the rather saucy name of Strip Jack Naked. What this means is that players aim to "strip" other players of their cards - not their clothes! The object of the game is to win all the cards of the deck. The game is a bit similar to War in that the whole deck is dealt out to the players and game play is pure luck with no skill involved, as players play the top card of their hand without looking at it first. Unlike War, more than two people can play.

The picture cards and the ace each have a different tax: one card for a jack, two for a queen, three for a king, and four for an ace.

When a player is paying the tax, if they happen to play a new picture card or ace, they don't play any more cards - instead, the next player has to pay the new tax. If this player also plays a picture card or an ace, the next player pays the tax, and so on, until someone until someone has paid the tax without turning up any of these four special cards.

Then the last player to play a picture or ace gets to keep the whole pile of cards. If a player runs out of cards, they are out of the game. Play continues until there is only one player left.

This is a fairly old English game and it was mentioned in the novel "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens in 1861.

Answer: Pelmanism

In this game, all the cards in the deck are laid out face down. Players take turns flipping over two cards at a time. If the cards match, the player removes them. If not, they are turned back over. As the game progresses, players try to remember which cards have already been turned over so if they turn over a card with the same value as one they have already seen, they will know where to look to find a matching card. Play continues until all the cards have been matched and the player with the most pairs wins.

The name Pelmanism originally referred to a mental training system developed to help people improve their memory and later became another name for this card game, which is also called Memory. Two or more people can play, and there is even a one-player version where you try to get as many pairs as possible within a set time limit.

Answer: To get rid of all your cards

There are a few different ways to spell and write the name of this game, such as Snip-Snap-Snorem or Snip, Snap, Snorem. Two or more people can play. The whole deck is dealt out to the players. The first person to play can begin by playing any card they like. Each player then tries to match the card played if they can with one of the same value.

For example, say the first person plays a jack, if the next person has a jack, they can play it on top, and when they do, they say "Snip!" The next person to play a jack says "Snap!" The person who plays the fourth and last jack says "Snorem!" If someone does not have a matching card, they pass their turn.

The person who last said "Snorem!" gets to play a card of their choice and play continues in the same way.

The first person to get rid of all their cards wins. In some version, people play with chips that are put into a pot in the middle of the table. A player who cannot play a card puts a chip in the pot; the winner collects the pot at the end.

Answer: True

Lying is normally a bad thing, but in this game it's all part of the fun! Cheat, which is also called I Doubt It, and some other names too rude to mention here, allows players to try to trick each other and to catch out other players when they are not telling the truth.

The object of the game is to get rid of all your cards. Two or more people can play. There are a few different versions, but generally, the whole deck is dealt out to the players who take turns putting cards face down in a pile while calling out the value of the card they have just played.

For example, in one common version, the first person to play will call out "ace" and play a card, the next person calls out "two" and plays a card, and so on with the value of the card increasing each time up to king, after which the cycle repeats. If another play thinks that someone has played a card that is not the value they have called, the person can say "cheat" and the player has to turn over the card. If the player was lying (also called "bluffing"), say, they called out "five" but the card is something else, the player has to pick up all the cards in the pile and add them to their hand. If the player was telling the truth though, the player who called "cheat" has to pick up the pile instead.

In some versions, players can also try to play two or more cards at a time instead of one. If they get caught though, they have to pick up the pile as usual. Part of the fun is trying to figure out when a player is cheating, like if they call "seven" but you have all the sevens in your hand, then you know they must be bluffing.

Answer: Melds

In Rummy, a meld is made by getting "sets" of at least three cards of the same rank, or "runs" of three or more cards in a numerical sequence, for example, 7-8-9 of any suit. Aces have a value of one, so a run can be made of A-2-3. There are many different versions of the game; most versions use one deck of 52 cards, but some versions use 2 full decks shuffled together. Usually, when two people play, they get 10 cards each; when three or four people play, they usually get 7 cards each; and when five or six play, they usually get 6 cards each.

The rest of the deck is placed face down in the middle of the playing area and the top card is turned over; this face up card forms the discard pile. The first player takes one card, either from the top of the deck or the discard pile and adds it to their hand. If the player can make a meld, they can lay it face down on the table. If they do not do this, then they put one of their cards on the discard pile. If they just took a card from the discard pile, they cannot discard it straight away, they have to play another card instead. Play then passes to the left. On their turn, a player can add a card to any meld showing on the table, that is, they can play a card to another player's meld or to their own.

For example, if someone has played a set of three tens, you may add a fourth ten; if someone has played a run, say, 8-9-10, you may add a card that continues the run, say, J or 7. The object of the game is to meld all of your cards. The first player to do so scores points from other players depending on the pip value of the cards remaining in their hand. Any cards that have not been laid down face up as melds are scored, even if they form sets or runs. Picture cards are worth 10 points, aces worth 1 point. If a player lays down all of their cards at once without having made any previous melds, this is called "rummy" and they score double points from the other players. Waiting to get a rummy is risky though because if another player goes out before you are ready, you might be left with 10 cards in your hand!

Answer: Rolling Stone

The Rolling Stones is the name of a world-famous music band led by Mick Jagger. Their name, like that of the card game, comes from a proverb that says, "a rolling stone gathers no moss." In the game Rolling Stone, the object of the game is to get rid of all your cards.

This can be tricky though if you have to you pick up extra cards. To make the game simpler, some of the cards are removed from the deck before the game begins: the sixes down through twos if there are four players, the fours through twos if there are five, and the twos only if there are six players. Each player gets eight cards.

The first player can play any card they like, and the other players must follow suit. Anyone who can't, picks up all the cards and adds them to their hand. If all players in a round follow suit, whoever played the highest card picks up the card but puts them aside instead of adding them to their hand.

This winning player gets to lead the next hand. Whoever gets rid of all their cards first wins.