Talk:Mau-Mau (card game)

message: Someone, an IP, edited the "Special Card Values" and introduced a set of completely ridiculous rules. That was on May 22 and no one seems to have noticed that until now, otherwise I'm sure it'd been changed already. I replaced the edited rules with the original ones. These are the ones that I'm familiar with (and I am a German and quite familiar with the game. However, since the weird rules have been around for quite a while, I wondered whether there might be a point to them and ask whoever thinks so, to give some kind of reason why!
:I'm as well surprised about the set of rules listed here. Whenever I played Mau Mau here in Germany it was 7 -> next one draws two, 8 -> next one is skipped, jack -> decide the next color, and last card must be announced.
:The rules are well known and explained to new players. I think many people mistake Mau Mau for Mao, where the rules are a secret and vary from group to group. 77.20.122.93 (talk) 09:46, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct Rules 

message: First it says:
:As soon as a player plays his last card, he must say "mau" to win the game. If the last card is a Jack, he must say "mau mau" for double score. If a player forgets to say "mau", he must draw cards as penalty (usually 4) and hasn't won.
Then it says in the variations section
:A popular variation is that a player must already say "mau" (or alternately "last card") as soon as he plays the next-to-last card and has just one card left in his hand. Failure to do so usually means the player has to draw 2 or 4 cards. 
These seem to be saying the same thing. Since this is an informal game with AFAIK no defined set of rules, I guess we have to decide whether saying mau is common enough that it's a rule or a variation Nil Einne 14:06, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rules 

message: I'm surprised there's no mention of Jack-Change-It here. Jack-change-it is the most common name I've heard for this game in Northern Ireland, Scotland and North-East England. Rules are similar, 2 of any suit is pick up two cards, ace is pick up four cards, Jack changes suit and 8 reverses direction of play. Unlike Uno (game), there is no reverse play in most circles.
I think if someone can place something on the article about it, it should go up. Mouse Nightshirt 20:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jack-Change-It 

message: there is no metion of the slap jack rule. The way i was taught you had to slap yourself across the face after playing a jack.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.145.183 (talk) 20:01, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  slap jack rule 

message: This merge should, by no means, take effect because like this all the other card games related to the Crazy Eights family would have to be merget into a single article too. Each and every game of this family of games have their own featured rules and peculiaritys. I have been working on every and each one of them, diagraming, adding pictures, formating, reading, studying evry single detail of games like Screw Your Neighbour, Craits, Switch, Mau Mau (card game), Crazy Eights, Black Jack, Bartok, Taki (card game), Mao (card game), Uno (card game) and Eleusis too, and they are, although similar, completely different from one another in every rule. Instead of merging these articles into a disform mass of rules, find me some info so we can date these games. Go find some sources, references, historical content and mainly dates because like this, every one will be able to know which game came first, witch game was derived from which and from which country, in a perfect lineage of card games related to this family. No merging is possible in this particular case. Krenakarore (talk) 22:38, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging Switch & Mau Mau

message: Originated at the University of Maryland in 1988:  Much of the rule are the same, except that the 7 acts as a "draw two", but if the person who is required to draw two also holds a 7, that player can play the 7, thus forcing the next person to draw 4, and so forth.  Also if all 4 cards of like value are played together, regardless if by one or more players, that player says "mau mau" and wins the round, and does not score the cards still held.  
Game play is to 500, and last player left wins.
8's act as reverse, but two 8's negate the reverse and play continues in the same direction.  
Also, if a Jack is the last card played, all other players' scores are doubled.
An offshoot of the Maryland variant has spurned the "Mau Mau Cup".  Initiated in 2007, it is an invitational game played annually around the New Year holiday.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.75.253.181 (talk) 21:23, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maryland variation. 

message: Ich habe den deutschsprachigen Artikel radikal überarbeitet, wer Lust hat kann ihn gern ins englische übersetzen, denn was hier steht ähnelt doch zu sehr dem was ich in de.wikipedia als Müll entfernt habe. --Aineias (talk) 07:28, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Translation: I've radically revised the German article, anyone can translate it into English, because what is here is similar to but too much I removed what is in de.wikipedia. 
RedPanda25 17:17, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Überarbeitet 

message: I have told you this many times, you cannot speak of the rules.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheTrumpocalypseIsComing (talk • contribs) 14:46, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Rules of Mau are Simple 

message: Only references to Zeara Robinson I could find on google are citations of this article. And it was added by an anonymous user with no other contributions. Would it be better to remove this section? (--94.230.146.151 (talk) 14:39, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doubts about accuracy of history