We all know chess, monopoly and even Sudoku, but have you heard of Mahjong? Mahjong is maybe one of the most played games around the Internet, yet many people never heard or played it.
So what is Mahjong? The original Mahjong board game is a game designed for 4 players and was invented in china. It was called maque, which means sparrow in Chinese. However, most Chinese now call the game majiang.
Even though the game was invented in China and considered very popular in Asia, thanks to the online world and especially the online games sites, it’s rapidly penetrating the western markets.
Mahjong is a game that involves many sides- Strategy, skill and also calculation skills, but like many other board games, luck is of the essence. In the original Mahjong game, each player is dealt either 13 or 16 tiles in a hand, depending on the game version. On their turn, players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds and one pair, or head (a mahjong game phrase). Winning comes ,on the draw, by drawing a new or discarded tile that completes the hand. Thus, a winning hand actually contains 14 or 17 tiles.
Mahjong is another example of a popular board game, like many that appear lately. A lot of classic games experts feared that the usage increase of the Internet will decrease the love of the classic board games we used to play, like Monopoly, chess etc. but it seems not only those games didn’t suffer a reduction in plays, on the contrary, they thrive as many of them are using the Internet platform to be distributed all around the world.
Well, you must be asking yourself where can I play mahjong if I don’t live in China? The answer is surprisingly convenient, you can play mahjong anywhere, anytime, even now! Just log into the Internet and search for this phrases- Mahjong, mahjongg and mah jong , each answer will award you with a nice leisure time activity game.
