Kinder Mau-Mau
Kinder Mau-Mau Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Rules
Setup: Shuffle the 31 cards thoroughly before the start. Each player is dealt 5 cards in hand. Place the remaining cards face down in the middle as the draw pile. Turn over the top card of the draw pile next to it to start the discard pile. The player whose birthday was most recently begins. Play then continues clockwise.
Object of the game: Be the first player to get rid of all of your cards.
Playing a turn: On your turn, play one card. It must match the face-up card on the discard pile in colour, or in number, or in action. If you have no matching card, draw one card from the draw pile. If that card fits, you may play it immediately. Then the player to your left takes their turn.
Example: On a green card showing 4 sheep symbols, you may play any green card, or a red, blue or yellow card showing 4 animal symbols. All action cards that show green may also be played.
Action Cards
The printed symbol beside each action name is a pictogram and is not reproduced as text.
Skip! (Aussetzen!): The next player misses their turn. This card may only be played onto one of the two matching colours or onto another Skip card.
Draw a card! (Karte ziehen!): The next player takes a card from the draw pile and may not play any of their cards that turn. This card may only be played onto the same colour.
Free colour choice! (Freie Farbwahl!): You decide the colour for the next turn. This card may be played onto any other card.
Make an animal noise! (Macht ein Tiergeräusch!): All players jump up and make the noise of the animal shown (for example "Miau" for the cat). Any player who stays seated draws one extra card from the draw pile. This card may be played onto any other card.
Reshuffling, MAU and Winning
When the draw pile runs out, the discarded cards, except the top one, are shuffled to form the new draw pile.
When you play your second-to-last card, you call out "MAU" loudly to show the other players that you are about to finish. If you forget to do so, you must draw 2 extra cards, because everyone is watching for it.
The winner is the player who plays their last card and calls "MAU-MAU".
If you play over several rounds, every other player counts the cards left in their hand as minus points and records them on a tally sheet (Strichliste).