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Mao (or Mau [2]) is a card game of the shedding family. The aim is to get rid of all of the cards in hand without breaking certain unspoken rules which tend to vary by venue. The game is from a subset of the Stops family and is similar in structure to the card game Uno or Crazy Eights. [3]
The 1939 edition of the game includes "Point-Scoring Sorry!", a variant where the game is scored at the end. [7] The game also gives players a hand of cards, each player being dealt five at the start of the game. On a player's turn, they play one card from their hand to determine their move, and then draw a replacement card from the remaining deck.
A card game session comprising a number of rounds after which scores are finalised and a winner declared. To play a card of the same value of the card or cards on the table, for example in fishing games. matsch. A slam in certain Austrian or Bavarian games. Failing to win at least a quarter of the points available in some German games.
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52 Pickup: A card game in which dealer scatters the cards on the floor and non-dealer must pick them up. Mornington Crescent: Originally a round in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. [6] The game consists of each panelist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system.
A 'family' from a set of old German Quartett cards. Each card lists the three others that it groups with. The player whose turn it is asks another player for a specific card: the asking player must hold a card of the same family. [3] If the asked player has the card, they must give it to the requester, and the requester then takes another turn.
[2] [3] [4] It belongs to the "shedding" or Eights family of card games, whereby each player tries to rid themselves of all of their cards. The game progresses through a series of rounds with a new rule being added in each round, thus making the game increasingly complex as it progresses. These newly introduced rules may modify any existing rules.
The first player flips over the top card and either takes it (earning that player points according to the value) or passes on the card by paying a chip (placing it on the card) and saying, "No thanks!" Play then proceeds in a clockwise circle until someone finally takes the card along with all of its accumulated chips, if any.