Mao (1961)

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Board Game Rank: 5911

Party Game Rank: 181

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Designer	(Uncredited)
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Publisher	(Public Domain)
Year Published	1961
# of Players	3 − 20
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 6, 7, 8 players Recommended with 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 players (4 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	13 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (1 voter) [poll]
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Subdomain	Party Games (5 voters) [vote]
Category	Card Game Humor Memory Party Game
Mechanic	Memory Pattern Recognition
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Family	Shedding Games Traditional Card Games
Primary Name	Mao
Alternate Names	Maw
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"What do you mean, I have to figure out the rules myself? How can I play this game if I don't know the rules?" Mao. The only game in which the rules of the game prohibit me from explaining the rules to you...

Mao is a standard deck playing card game where the object is to get rid of all your cards. And this is the ONLY thing you are told about this game. You have to figure out the rest of the rules by yourself. Every time you break a rule, a penalty is called, and you are penalized a card.

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1	Rules Starting the game with only 1 secret ?	2010-11-24	Rainbow...	1
1	General Mao with a Bang! deck	2010-10-05	asta	4
3	Sessions Playing Mao With a Hater	2010-07-29	gwommy	5
3	Rules Base Rules	2010-03-24	gwommy	7
1	Sessions Random Stupid Fun: What’s Not to Love?	2009-06-24	OneOO	1
0	Rules Using a pen and paper	2008-10-24	Samort7	2
11	Reviews Good High School Game, Great Drinking Game, Horrible Adult Game	2008-09-28	SpaceGhost	14
1	General Date of creation	2008-08-21	pmagnus	1
0	News Mao T-Shirts from Uberbadger	2008-07-05	banyan	0
0	Variants Turbo Mao	2008-02-28	mr_fog	0

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85	You Gave THAT a 10!?	2008-01-29
77	No need to be embarrassed - you just happen to like this game more than anyone else on BGG!	2007-07-05

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Board Game Rank:	5911
Party Game Rank:	181
Num Ratings:	196
Average Rating:	5.64
Standard Deviation:	2.62
Num Views:	18073
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Avg. Game Weight:	1.9
Fans:	6

Personal Comments:	108
Users Owning:	102
Users Wanting:	1
Users Trading:	1 [find trade matches]
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Description at Pagat.com	http://www.pagat.com/eights/mao.html	2009-11-22
Mao page at answers.com	http://www.answers.com/topic/mao-game?method=6	2005-11-17
The Maobot - an automated browser-based opponent	http://kevan.org/games/maobot.html	2004-06-28
Mao page at Seattle Cosmic Wiki	http://www.ludism.org/scwiki/Mao	2003-05-04