Vieux garçon

'old boy') is a card game played with a standard 52-card pack from which the jack of clubs is removed.

[6] They originally employed a pack of 32 or 52 French cards, the queen of hearts being removed in the case of old maid, or one or all of the jacks, leaving the jack of spades as the odd card in the case of vieux garçon or Black Peter.

In Tignes, in the French department of Savoie, the jack of spades is known in the local dialect as the grabyoula.

Each player discards his same-coloured pairs (Hearts and Diamonds or Clubs and Spades) of the same value.

There are games, more suitable for children, in which the Pouilleux is represented by a grey cat named Mistigri, and the other cards are paired, often in a humorous way.

The jack of spades is the pouilleux - it cannot be discarded, as its partner the jack of clubs is not used in the game