That's weird, I have to write the PS, before the actual post so it will be below it. anyhoo...sorry for the wacky post, if you have never played Mow before it won't make any sense. It's a hilarious, awesome, incredible card game that everyone needs to play at least once in their life :) I just thought some explaination was necessary.
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- Karyn Michelle
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- St. Cyprian - "It is really a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. Yet in the midst of it I have found a quiet and holy people. They have discovered a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasures of this sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are the Christians -- and I am one of them." --and so am I.
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It does help if you spell the game's name right: M-A-O, as in Mao Tse-Tung (or Zedong), the communist dictator of China. The name is actually a social commentary on the Chinese brand of communism. Just thought you should know.
Love that game... or at least the thought behind it. I've never played it though. Tried once. Ended in a fight. (Then again, RISK does the same thing around here, so no surprise)
Wow...I haven't played that game forever. And yeah, RISK does that at my house too.
It doesn't make sense with any other spelling, and here's why (to answer both questions at once): the game makes a statement by taking a straightforward game like Crazy Eights and adding dozens of nonsensical rules, all of which are enforced at random. In the pure version of the game you can't even tell people what the rules are ahead of time, they just have to figure them out as they go. And there are no questions allowed during actual gameplay. There are other theories about the name, but I think that's the most probable, and it's the name by which the game is entered in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_%28game%29).
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