Talk:Macau (card game)

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This Makaò, or Crazy Eights. Perhaps it should be merged with the Crazy Eights article. agapetos_angel 12:37, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be bold and...slap on a Merge tag :D Tamarkot 01:38, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

While editing the article, I noticed that there are in fact 2 rules sections. One says that runs are allowed, while the other says that only two cards are allowed to be played at once. Due to the flexible nature of card games, this may not necessarily be an issue, but I am not a player of this particular game. Unless someone has any feedback, I might merge the two, giving both as options and say that it might vary based on house rules. StewFor2Dollars (talk) 22:50, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It says at the top that cheating is encouraged but never elaborates on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8801:2E81:C300:E35B:2520:757E:7E29 (talk) 18:13, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is a wrong and misleading rule that has been removed, this game is a fair game, not a cheaters game ~2026-19314-75 (talk) 19:46, 29 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Looking on the Internet, I couldn't find any reference to a "Pławno variation" of Macau, other than on Wikipedia, and websites based on it. It seems like this variation might be an invention of user @Tretos in order to self-promote their own variation (Macau Wars).

Timeline:

31 August 2018, 11:43 - (en) Tretos's first edit in Macau. They add an unsourced "Pławno variation".

10 January 2019, 19:34 - (en) Tretos's first edit adding Macau Wars, later they link their own GitHub repo as the only source.

10 January 2019, 21:09 - (pl) Tretos adds the Pławno variation and Macau Wars to Makao on the Polish Wikipedia

23 November 2020, 21:18 - (en) An anonymous IP user 159.205.209.150 deletes Macau Wars because of inactivity on the GitHub.

27 January 2025, 09:34 - (pl) Nevalicjus deletes Macau Wars from the Polish Wikipedia according to WP:PROMO.

In my view, it looks like Tretos created a section on their own macau variation (Macau Wars) to Wikipedia in order to promote it, and, to add validity to it, also added an unverifiable "Pławno variation". (WP:PROMO)

It's also possible that Tretos is from Pławno, and they described a version that does exist, that they know, and that they based Macau Wars on. (WP:OR)

It's difficult to verify the authenticity of the rules of a card game that's known and played differently by everyone, but is there any source talking about a Pławno variation of macau, or about a variation by a different name but same rules?

Also, the formatting of the article has been messed up by Tretos's edits. The top-level sections "Gameplay", "War", "Action Cards", and "Open Cards" seem to have been meant to apply to Macau Wars, but, because of a formatting mistake, they were put in their own top-level sections instead of subsections of Macau Wars. These sections should be removed.

I've also started a parallel discussion on the Polish Wikipedia. Wiger3 (talk) 04:23, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the "Pławno variation" section. Clearly promotional, as there are no other references than the github repo (https://github.com/23ewrdtf/Macau-Wars/blob/master/README.md).  podstawko  ●talk  10:40, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Wiger3 I concur, better sources are needed. Well, this article is poorly referenced anyway :( _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:44, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]