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Mole Manor

Chinese massively multiplayer online game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ11078453
Source-derived summary

Mole Manor (Chinese: 摩尔庄园) is a massive multiplayer online game targeted at children ages 6 to 14; there is, however, no specific age or gender restriction on the game. The game was inspired by the online platform Club Penguin, where players can choose cartoon mole-avatars, decorate their virtual homes, adopt pets, and socialize with other players. They can wander through the virtual streets, chat with other users, go shopping, work, and play mini-games.

Mole Manor occasionally offers promotional games that are available for a limited period. The official version was tested in March 2008 and was made available to the public on 28 April 2008, with regular, scheduled maintenance every Friday, except holidays. The mainland version was terminated in March 2015. However, the launch of an official Weibo version of the game was announced on 18 January 2019. Mole Manor is driven by Adobe Flash Player, and offers paid services.

Plot

Moles and Ramus live in the Black Forest. Moles are friendly, diligent and are excellent architects.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mole Manor” as chinese massively multiplayer online game. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2015, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mole, Manor and Chinese can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Mole Manor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.