Mau-Mau is a card game for two to five players that is popular in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, the United States, Brazil, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Israel and the Netherlands.

[1] Its rules were first published in 1958 and although "it appeared quite suddenly... anyone who has played it once will be enthralled by it... Its particular charm lies in its cheerful, light entertaining character and perfectly refined simplicity.

Before the start of the game, a player who is not the dealer cuts the deck four times.

The 7, 8, Jack, and Ace of all suits are significant cards: In Austria and Bavaria, a variation is the 32-card game known as Neuner ("Nines"); in this variation, a Joker is added and the Nines are used as wild cards.

Solutions include adding more decks to the game or decreasing the penalties of power cards.

However, there are a few notable distinctions: In the Netherlands Mau-Mau is mainly known as Pesten (meaning bullying).

The main differences with Mau-Mau are as follows, though there is typically some variation in the rules depending on the group of players.

A player must say Puque when playing their next-to-last card, and doesn't have to say anything different from end with a Jack,[clarification needed] still getting the double score.

Variants are called Чешский Дурак (Czech Fool), Фараон (Pharaoh), Крокодил (Crocodile) or 101.

It is the same as in the Czech Republic with the following exceptions: A Swiss version of the game called Tschau Sepp, played with 36 cards, has existed at least since the early 1960s.