Mau-Mau

shedding game – 2–4 players, 32 cards (Hungarian: Makaó)

Aim and deal

The first player to get rid of all their cards wins the round.
Everyone gets 5 cards (switch: 6). The rest is the stock; its top card is turned up to start the discard pile. A special starting card goes back and a new one is turned.

On your turn, play a card of the same suit or the same rank as the top card.
If you cannot or do not want to, draw one card. If it fits, you may play it at once; otherwise the next player goes.
Cards of the same rank may be played together (switch). When the stock runs out, the discard pile (except its top card) is reshuffled.

Seven: the next player draws 2 – unless they play a seven too; then the following player draws 4, and so on.
Eight (Hungarian rules: ace): the next player misses a turn – unless they play the same card on it, passing the skip on.
Jack (Hungarian rules: queen/Ober): goes on any card (not on an open seven or skip) and wishes a suit. Then that suit must follow, or another wishing card.
Hungarian rules: the queen (Ober) wishes a suit, the jack (Unter) wishes a rank (eight, nine, ten, king).

Before playing your second-to-last card, press Last card! (“Makaó!” in Hungary). Forget it and you draw 2 penalty cards (Hungarian rules: 5).

The player who went out scores 0; the others score the cards left in hand: 7–10 face value, jack 2, queen 3, king 4, ace 11.
When someone reaches 100 points the game ends and the lowest score wins. Switch: the first to win 5 rounds. Can also be played with a 52-card French deck.