Mau Mau (card Game) - Popular Additional Rules

Popular Additional Rules

• A King and Queen of the same suit can be played at the same time in a marriage.
• During Bleeding Mao, any people who see another's cards must say, for example, "Bleeding Queen of Spades," and hand that person a card from the deck.
• When a 2 of any suit is played the player must yell "The Deuce is Loose".
• Players may not touch their cards during Point of Order.
• Player of a red 7 must turn to the player on their left and say "Have a nice day," knock the table, and give them one card from the deck.
• Player of a black 7 must say "Have a very nice day" to the player on their right, knock the table, and give them two cards from the deck.
• Cards of the same value can be played all together within one turn.
• Whenever a Queen is played, the person who played it must say, "All hail Lady Mao."
• Player of a king must say, "All Hail Chairman Mao."
• Player of a jack may change the suit by saying, "Change suit to _____." (Hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds)
• Players must say "last card" when they have only one card left.
• A 2 reverses the direction of play (clockwise and counterclockwise), or lets the player take another turn before reversing. A player who fails to notice that the direction was reversed and plays out of turn must draw one card.
• When you draw cards (e.g. when you pick two after a 7, or a card from the stack when you can't play), you may put a card down immediately.
• Whenever a card of spades is placed on the stack, the player must say, "___ of Spades."
• Anyone who talks receives a penalty card
• The first player to deal usually is the person with the most seniority in the game. The dealer is referred to as the Maumaster, or 'dictator'
• The winning player "wins the deal"
• The first player to be the Maumaster (dealer) 3 times may make up a rule at random that must be obeyed indefinitely until the players are finished playing the game for certain period of time (i.e. at the end of the night, or if there is an extended break in gameplay)
• Before the game starts players may look at their cards, the Maumaster must say "the name of the game is __ (some number of cards) Mau the game has begun" at which point players are no longer allowed to look at their cards unless the Maumaster conitinues with "you may look at your cards" and then must dictate the first player who will start the game and the direction the game will go (clockwise or counter...)
• When a player plays the 4 of diamonds, they must say, "Let's Play Baseball"
• When a player plays a 3 of any suit, they must say, "Tally Time", to which all others playing must reply "SHUT UP!"
• A player may not ask questions during the game, and in extreme cases, may not even have an inquizitive tone to their voice, or they can be penalized one card
• Anyone can penalize anyone who breaks the rules and must explain why they were penalized. The penalized player must always respond "thank you" for every penalty given.

In Austria and Bavaria a variation on the game is known as "Neunerln".

In Portugal, a variation on this game is called "Puque" (reads as Poock, in English). The rules are almost the same, with the 2 replacing the 8 as the "skip turn" card. One must say Puque when one plays his next-to-last card, and doesn't have to say anything different to end with a Jack, still getting the double score.