Mahjong is an ancient Chinese game. It is played with set of dices made of bone, wood, plastic resin and ivory. They contain tiles which are divided in three categories. The first set of his online game has suit tiles. All tiles have dots, lines and characters. These tiles look like a deck of cards, every set of suit tiles in the game has four sets of 9 dotted tiles, four sets of 9 character tiles and sets of 9 lined tiles. Some other special tiles are also seen in online games of Mahjong. One tile called as the honor tile contains three sets of dragon tiles. Each dragon has red, green and white color respectively. The white colored tile in this game is sometime depicted as a blank tile. Four other sets of tiles can also be seen in this game. These are called wind tiles, each of them depict a direction of North, South, East and West.
The main object of this ancient game called Mahjong is to make a winning hand in four sets having 3 tiles. The sequence of this game may start from a bamboo, circle or character. It may also start with a triplet of tiles. Very winning hand has total 14 tiles. In the beginning players have to deal with 13 tiles. They can create a big winning hand by drawing a Mahjong wall and discarding sets belonging to competitors. While playing one tile is to be discarded in the game in exchange of drawing one. The winning hand ends when a player obtains the Mahjong wall. By understanding the strategy and rules of the game a player can easily win over his opponents.
Some sets of Mahjong games depict tiles with themes of winter, seasons, spring and water falls including spring and summer season. These game sets may be slightly different from each other but all of them have 136 tiles. Many sets may even have 144 tiles. These are actually special decks of playing cards. All over line of these games make them sound to be classical. Now free online Mahjong games are available for playing. It's amazing to see that a game which is nearly four thousand years old has been turned into an online video game. It has been passed successfully from various generations of China to this modern world. These are now available in market in many versions, they are American version, Taiwan version, Japanese version and Vietnamese version. |
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