Card games belonging to the Eights group have been popular with schoolchildren and college students at least since the 1960s Part of their attraction is the ease with which increasingly elaborate rules can be added success in these games depends largely on the ability to remember the rules and act on them correctly within a limited time.Mao is a recent ition to the group, which is especially popular in the USA.The main feature of Mao which distinguishes it from many of its ors is that there is a rule against explaining or asking about the rules. New players are expected to join a game and deduce the rules of play by observation, trial and error.This ban on explaining the rules makes it rather awkward to produce a eful web page about Mao without violating its key principle, but that has not stopped several people from trying.

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