Keep going around the circle in this way. The worse case scenario is they pick up the Ace. The ideal situation for the picker is they take a card that matches with one of their own, so they can discard a pair in the middle. Then, keeping your cards secret from the other players, fan them out to the person to your right, and let them pick one from your hand, and put it into their own hand. Once all of the cards are dealt out, start by pairing up matching numbers from your hand, and put them face up in the middle. The aim of the game is to get rid of all of your cards by pairing them up with the same number - the person to get rid of all their cards first wins, and the person with the Ace at the end is the loser. Take out all but one Ace (typically, the Ace of Spades is left in), and equally deal out the cards to everyone playing.

This game is so easy to pick up, and can be played with one or two decks of cards. Here's our pick of the 8 best card games. (Unless you've got board games to hand of course, but that's a conversation for a different time.) While drinking games are great and dinner party games are fun, nothing can beat creating hours of fun from a single pack of cards and a good group of mates.

Sometimes all you want is a good old fashioned card game.