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Using cards with different pictures on them to make more intricate rules. For example, you can make a new rule where you must say, "My favorite color is purple," when you play a card that has any purple on it.
Care to play Mao?  What decks would you like to use?
You always "have a nice day" when playing Mao.
The ideal deck!
Every game needs a first image, and here's one for Mao, a Crazy Eights variant.  Mao rules vary, but fairly consistently the Ace is commonly used for "reverse player order", and the Eight is commonly used to "skip a player."

Mao (0)

Players
2–20
Best: 5, 6, 7, 8
Playing time
5–60 min
Age
13+
5.66
Average rating
476
Ratings
1.90/5
Weight
#21790
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Alternate names:Chairman +8 more
Designer:(Uncredited)
Publisher:(Public Domain)
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 3.8, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity3.8
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

"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 that new players are told about this game. They are forced to figure out the rest of the rules by themselves. Every time a player breaks a rule, a penalty is called, and they must take it back and draw a penalty card.

In some variants, the winner of each round makes up a new (secret) rule for the next round.

Commercial versions of the game include Quao and Shut Your Mao!

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