Ultimate Super Powers Old Maid: 3Days

About

Ultimate Super Powers Old Maid: 3Days reworks card game basics with a layer of tactical chaos. Players juggle numbered cards and jokers while deploying ability tiles to mess with opponents. Each turn replenishes these tiles, letting you force extra draws, expand someone’s hand, or ditch your own cards. Victory means emptying your hand while others hold the losing old maid. The twist is how tiles mix classic Old Maid pacing with Mahjong-like strategy, demanding quick decisions and misdirection. What sets it apart is the tile limit system. Only so many of each ability can exist at once, letting players hoard critical actions and block others. Full visibility of everyone’s hands and tiles sharpens the mental game, turning simple card-dumping into a chess match. A 2021 PC multiplayer release, it’s a chaotic yet calculated spin on a childhood staple. The three-day development sprint shows in its raw energy rather than polish.

Storyline

When the game starts, each player is first dealt a hand of five cards with hands and feet for some reason, and six ability tiles. In addition to "draw one card from the opponent's hand," the ability tiles also contain special effects that are not found in the regular Old Maid, such as "increase the opponent's hand" and "discard your hand. The player must use this Ability Tile to eliminate his or her own hand, as in the Bubba Draw, in order to win. One of the characteristics of an Ability Tile is that it has a fixed maximum number of tiles that can appear on the field. For example, one player can monopolize one Ability Tile, and while that player is monopolized, no other player can draw that Ability Tile until that player uses the Ability Tile they are monopolizing. The game is characterized by the fact that both players can read each other's ability tiles as well as the opponent's hand, which creates a deeper gameplay than in ordinary Old Maid.