How to Play the Card Game Niddy Noddy

Niddy Noddy is a fun card game for kids. It's based on a game called Noddy, which originated in England during the late 1500s. Noddy means fool or simple-minded person. If you can say Niddy Noddy, you can play Niddy Noddy.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Deck of cards with jokers removed
• 3 to 8 players

1. Shuffle the cards and deal them all. Some players may have more cards than others.
2. Start the game if you are left of dealer. Find the highest pair you have in your hand (aces are low). Put down one of the cards in your pair and say, "Here's a good card for thee." If you don't have a pair, pass to the person on your left.
3. Put down a card of the same suit face up on the table if you go after a player who's laid down one of their pairs. It must be a higher card than the one on the table, and you must pass if you don't have a higher card. As you lay your card down say, "Here's another as good as he."
4. Lay down a card if you have a higher card of the same suit or pass to the person on your left. As you lay down a higher card say, "And here's the best of all three."
5. Place another higher card on the table, provided you have one, when it becomes your turn. If you are the fourth person to lay down a card in a round, you say, "And here's old Niddy Noddy."
6. Go around the table until the highest card is played. The person who laid down this card is the winner of the round and will start a new round with a new card.
7. Win the game by getting rid of all your cards first.

Tips & Warnings

• The king is the high card. When this is played the round is over, even if it is the first card played.