---
title: "Play Mau Online - mssgs Games"
description: "Play Mau free in your browser: match colour or number, hand out +2s and Wild +4s, and say Mau! on your last card. Against the computer or your friends."
canonical: https://mss.gs/en/games/mau
language: en
---

# Mau

Our own colour-matching card game for 2 to 4. Match the colour or the number, hit the next player with a +2, switch colours with a Wild, and say Mau! on your last card. First empty hand wins.

## Play Mau right here

In your browser, with nothing to install and no account needed. Take on the computer, or open a room and send a friend the link.

Got a code from a friend? [Join their game](https://mss.gs/en/games/mau/play).

## Most wins

Most games won against other players.

| # | Player | Wins |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Loading the board…** |  |  |

Only games between players with an account count, not games against guests or the computer. [Sign in to take part](https://mss.gs/en/login?return=%2Fen%2Fgames%2Fmau%2Fplay)

## High scores

Most points in a game won against three computer players.

| # | Player | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Loading the high scores…** |  |  |

Each player's best game against the computer, played while signed in. [Sign in to take part](https://mss.gs/en/login?return=%2Fen%2Fgames%2Fmau%2Fplay)

## Start Mau in your browser

mssgs runs right in your browser, nothing to install. With a free account you start games from your chats and play them with your friends there.

- 1 Create your free account Open mssgs in your browser and sign up with a username and your email address.

- 2 Click the game controller It sits in the strip on the far left and says **Play a game** when you point at it. On a phone it shows on the home screen; from inside a chat, swipe in from the left edge.

- 3 Choose **Mau** Your room opens straight away, with a 6-character room code. In the room, the host can switch on stacking before you start.

- 4 Bring in a friend Press **Guest link** in the room and send the link: your friend plays straight in their browser, no account needed, and the link works once. Friends already on mssgs can join with the room code under **Join with a code**, or you press **Invite**.

- 5 Start playing Once at least two players are in, the host presses **Start game**. Up to four can play.

Opens in a new tab, so these steps stay right here.

Already have an account? [Sign in](https://app.mss.gs/).

Rather use the app? [Download mssgs](https://mss.gs/en/downloads) for your phone or computer.

## How it works

### Colour or number

Everyone starts with seven cards. Play one that matches the top card by colour or by value: blue on blue, a 7 on a 7, a Skip on a Skip. Nothing fits? Draw a card, and if that one fits you can play it right away.

### Skip, Reverse and +2

Skip: the next player sits a turn out. Reverse: play turns the other way (with two of you it works like a Skip). +2: the next player draws two cards and loses their turn.

### Wild cards

A Wild goes on anything, and you pick the colour that has to follow. A Wild +4 does the same, then the next player draws four and misses their turn.

### Say Mau!

Playing down to your last card? Say Mau! as it lands. Forget, and anyone can catch you until the next card is played or drawn: you draw two. Say it late but before anyone catches you, and you get away with it.

### Stack it, if you dare

The host can switch on stacking: answer a +2 with a +2, or either one with a Wild +4, and the whole pile moves on to the next player. Whoever can't answer draws the lot.

### Empty hand wins

The first to play their last card wins and scores what the others still hold: number cards their value, Skip, Reverse and +2 are worth 20 each, Wild cards 50. Let the clock run out three turns in a row and you're out.

## Every game comes with

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## Get your group together

One link invites your whole group, on phone or desktop.