David Walliams: Awful Auntie's Old Maid Card Game

Old Maid, but the maid is a truly awful aunt.

The classic matching game every kid learns eventually, dressed up with characters from David Walliams' Awful Auntie and illustrated throughout by Tony Ross. Pair up your cards, ditch them from your hand, and whatever you do, don't be the one left holding Aunt Alberta at the end.

Rules are the same ones you already know, which means no reading the booklet and no false starts — deal it out and play. Small box, short games, and a decent bridge between picture books and proper card games.

Perfect for: young readers, rainy afternoons, grandparents who taught you this game in the first place, and learning early that a poker face is a life skill.