Buster Brown and the Goat

A card game featuring Buster Brown, Tige, and friends similar to Old Maid. The Goat is the odd card or the "Old Maid" that you don't want to be caught with or you lose the game!

Rules from the game box: Deal 3 cards to each player and 3 to the table face up. If the Goat is dealt to the table, he must be put back in the pack shuffled, and a new card dealt to the table in its place.

The first player must make a pair by matching a card on the table with one in his hand if he can, at the same time reading aloud the title of the card, for instance, "I am Buster's Father". He then takes the trick to himself. If he cannot make a pair in that way, then he must play a card on the table, any one he likes, except for the Goat.

After his play, he must then take the top card from the pack, so that he will always hold 3 cards, until the pack runs out, when there are no more cards to draw from. Then, if a player cannot make a pair by matching one on the table, he may make one from his hand. If he can do neither, he must draw a card from his left-hand neighbor and try to make a pair from the table or from his hand, and so on, until the last card remains unplayed which must be the Goat. The player with that card must hold it up and say "I am the Goat."