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mau mau Das Brettspiel

placing cards instead of shedding

Mau Mau not played with cards only, but on a game board - not to shed your cards is the aim, but to place them on the board to collect points with them.

Players select one side of the double-sided board; all cards are put in the middle face-down in several heaps. One random card is placed for a starting card, each player draws five cards for his rack. You place a card in turn, next to a card already there and corresponding to this card in either color or value, or you place a joker card. Next to a joker, you must place a card that corresponds to the card placed previous to the joker card in this row. If you cannot place a card, you draw a card. If you are down to one card, you say “Mau” or draw a card. If you place your last card, you say “Mau Mau” or draw a card.

Additional special cards are: +2 - the next player draws two cards; Stop - the next player passes, and Pass card - you hand a card to the next player. There are also board cases whose effects are triggered when you place a card on them - Score 1 point or All but you draw a card or You discard a card or Tower. After the first card on a tower, you put cards ON the tower cases, only cards that correspond in value or symbol to the top card on the tower case, for points.

Otherwise, you score for correlations in color AND value or for a „Mau Mau“. The game does not end in case of a “Mau Mau”, by the way but you play until the board is full and win with most points.

Easy and simple like Mau Mau, fun like Mau Mau, and overall a little bit more tactical than Mau Mau - all in all a very nice und fun version of an evergreen card game or mechanism.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Artist: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2019

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Placement for points

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice variant

Mau Mau flair is kept

Very simple family game

Compares to:

Mau Mau The Card Game

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0