Build instructions, binaries and rules

Prerequisites

a GNU GCC compiler (currently NetMauMau uses a certain amount of features exclusive to GCC)
the POPT library >= 1.10
xxd (from the vim package [on Debian based distributions vim-common; on Gentoo vim-core])
libmagic (optionally, but recommended)
GNU Scientific Library >= 1.9 (optionally, for better random number generator)

Setting up the build environment

NetMauMau prefers automake-1.11

After checkout run env AUTOMAKE=automake-1.11 ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.11 autoreconf -ifv to set up the build environment.

./configure && make builds the projects and make install installs it. See configure --help for more options and help.

Client

A proof of concept Qt client can be found at https://github.com/velnias75/NetMauMau-Qt-Client

Binary releases

Gentoo

NetMauMau is available on Gentoo via the overlay games-overlay which can be added by layman The GitHub repository of games-overlay is here: https://github.com/hasufell/games-overlay

Adding the overlay

With paludis: see Paludis repository configuration

With layman: layman -f -o https://raw.github.com/hasufell/games-overlay/master/repository.xml -a games-overlay or layman -a games-overlay

Install NetMauMau with emerge games-server/netmaumau

Ubuntu

Binary packages are available for Precise, Trusty, Utopic and Vivid in my Launchpad PPA at https://launchpad.net/~velnias/+archive/ubuntu/velnias

Add the repository to your system:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:velnias/velnias

Debian 7

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/velnias/Debian_7.0

Windows

https://sourceforge.net/projects/netmaumau/

Rules

Following are the rules currently implemented in NetMauMau:

General rules

At the beginning every player gets five random cards out of a set of 32 cards. Of the remaining cards one card's front is visible to all players and the rest serves as pool of cards to take if a player cannot play a card or if the player has to take cards due to the Seven rule. If all pool cards are either in players hands or played out all cards except the visible card are shuffled again and made available as pool again.

The aim of NetMauMau is to get away all cards as fast as possible. To achieve this a player can play out any card of either the same rank or the same suit. If a player cannot play out any card the player has to take one from the pool and to suspend. Some cards trigger specific actions as described below.

If a player has lost the points of the player's cards are summed up. If the player has lost due a played out Jack, the points are doubled. The higher that value the worse the game is lost.

Specific card rules

All rules apply also to the visible card at the beginning of the game for the first player.

Seven (1 point)

if a Seven is played out than the next player has either to take two more cards or play out another Seven. In that case the next player has either to take plus two (i.e. four) cards or can also play out a Seven and so forth. At maximum one player has to take eight cards if a sequence of four Seven are played out
Eight (2 points)

if an Eight is played out, the next player has to suspend and the next player can play a card. The player has not to take an extra card. An Eight played before takes precedence, i.e. even if the next player has an Eight, the player has to suspend
Nine (3 points)

there is no special rule for that rank
Ten (4 points)

there is no special rule for that rank
Queen (5 points)

there is no special rule for that rank
King (6 points)

there is no special rule for that rank
Ace (11 points)

if the Ace rounds are enabled (--ace-round|-a), a player can, if there are two or more Aces on hand, start an Ace round. Within the Ace round other players can only play out Aces or have to suspend and take a card. The player can stop the Ace round at any time. The Ace round is also stopped if the player plays the last Ace
Jack (20 points)

if a Jack of any suite is played out, the player can wish a new suit. A Jack can get played over any card except another Jack. An Eight played before takes precedence, i.e. even if the next player has a Jack, the player has to suspend

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