Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Joy Luck Club #1


Mahjong is a game that came from China, commonly played by four players. Its a game of skill, strategy and calculation and some chance. In Asia, mahjong is also played as a gambling game and is commonly played for fun.  The game is played with 152 tiles with Chinese characters and symbols on them, although some variations use a different number of tiles. Each player receives thirteen tiles and players draw and discard tiles until they complete a legal hand using the fourteenth drawn tile to form four groups and a pair.  There are many variations in the rules and the scoring system, and the minimum hand needed to win changes based on the rules being used.

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