The only rule you may be told is this one .
That ’s the premise of r / MaoGame , a Modern subredditloosely based on the frustratingly secretive carte game of the same name . But without playing cards to divest , the finish instead seem to be avoiding a forbidding .
I call up playing Mao in summer coterie as a fry . The peak is to get rid of your cards , but new rules were made mutely by more experienced players , and in my first round I cease up with half a deck ’s Charles Frederick Worth of board , each laminated patch of composition board handed out for an infringement I could n’t quite estimate out . Because the rules of Mao can be base anything . Anything . What you say . How you say it . Unconscious actions like yawn or hum can all be the basis for a penalty . When each unit of ammunition ’s rules become clear , the playfulness lie in catch someone else get the same confusion — in much the same way of life I ’d imagine the mid grade sale side of a multi - unwavering marketing scheme is fun . It ’s an ode to the voguish mark .
In its digital incarnation , there are n’t cards to get rid of , so the price of breaking a rule is a 24 - hour prohibition handed out by one of the subreddit ’s moderators . Even bot are not safe . user are throwing everything at r / MaoGame to figure out what constitutes an satisfactory post , with speculation that adding some variation of “ hail to the chairman ” to posts will make them acceptable by default ( it does n’t ) . To put it brusquely : No one has a blasted clew .
Unlike the card game , positive distinction are handed out ostensibly at random :
Some duds have bans on every individual comment . Others are altogether untouched by the moderators . I tried out a cosher idiomatic expression and have n’t receive a ban yet , so the subreddit at least looks like internally reproducible , for now . The rules of Mao are always subject to change .
There ’s also the distinct possibility this whole affair is a round . There may not be any rules at all , and r / MaoGame ’s commenters are looking like total dunces for the entertainment of a bored teenager in some shitkicker Midwestern exurb . ( We ’ve give out to the moderator of MaoGame , and we ’ll update if we hear back . )
ButI choose to trust . If you do too , help us calculate out how this thing works .
Update 9/3/17 3:36pm EST : A moderator for MaoGame got back to us over Reddit PM to clarify a bit about how the subreddit work . “ So far the process is that we have a exercise set of “ obscure ” rules . These rules will not change until the users reckon out all of the rules . drug user will go intor / MaoGameMetaand from there they will puzzle out on finding them out,”The_Yakuzawrote . “ Once the users have figured out all the rules we the moderator will make a whole novel set of rule . The old rule will then stop . ”
He or she also noted that they may need to utilise bot to hand out bans in the future if they sub develop too big to treat . Considering roentgen / MaoGame is on bothr / trendingsubredditsandr / wowthissubexiststoday , it ’s more than likely .
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