Games with one loser

[M Man]

I'm looking for as many games as possible that have the feature of
producing, by their nature, a single loser rather than a single
winner.

A trivial example would be Old Maid: the player stuck with the Old
Maid card is the loser and the others are equally winners.

Does anyone know of other games (presumably more sophisticated ones)
that have this quality?

[Nick Wedd]

Post by M Man
I'm looking for as many games as possible that have the feature of
producing, by their nature, a single loser rather than a single
winner.
A trivial example would be Old Maid: the player stuck with the Old
Maid card is the loser and the others are equally winners.
Does anyone know of other games (presumably more sophisticated ones)
that have this quality?

Here are three:
Boonaken http://www.pagat.com/jass/boonaken.html
Potato-Jass
Toepen http://www.pagat.com/last/toepen.html

I expect you will find more by searching the games at
http://www.pagat.com.

Nick

[David Parlett]

Post by M Man
I'm looking for as many games as possible that have the feature of
producing, by their nature, a single loser rather than a single
winner.
A trivial example would be Old Maid: the player stuck with the Old
Maid card is the loser and the others are equally winners.
Does anyone know of other games (presumably more sophisticated ones)
that have this quality?

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Card Games contains a whole section entitled Last In Loses. Most
games categorised as Drinking Games are of this type. There are many Scandinavian games where
the aim is to avoid winning the last trick. So many others fit the bill that it hardly seems
worth while trying to winkle them all out. (Almost any non-partnership game can be converted
into this type by simply decreeing that the player with the lowest score loses instead of the
one with the highest score wins, though I suppose this contradicts the bit about 'by their
nature'.)

David Parlett

[MikeyD]

Post by M Man
Does anyone know of other games (presumably more sophisticated ones)
that have this quality?

There's a russian game called something like dunyak that works like
this. See the attatched web page.