Mao (card game)

Mao is a card game for four or more players and is related to Mau Mau.

Game rules

The most important rule is to new players not to explain the rules. Their only way to figure out the rules based on observation and trial and error. A player who breaks a rule will be penalized with an additional card from the deck. It must from punishing players the wrong action called by this but may not have the associated rule to be explained. If the card was wrongly given, he must keep the card.

Since there is no uniform set of rules, the more rules depending on the region or group of players are different.

The aim of the game is to get all cards from the hand. Each player gets when the game starts an equal number of cards, often five or seven pieces. Players place one after the other each a card with the image up on a stack. Each card can be played if the color map or the map value matches with the previous card. If the player can not pass, he must draw and run into many variants while a certain action from its deck a card.

In addition, rules that prescribe for specific actions exist to perform certain acts or to speak specified words.

Some cards may have a special meaning:

• A map will change the order of play
• When ace the next player must miss
• A farmer one must usually play over and thereby determine a new card color
• All spades cards must be named, for example, if a player plays the King of Spades, it must be ' King of Spades ' say
• In a seven the next player must draw one or two cards