Mahjong

Last night, I played Mahjong with my friends. It's very interesting. Mahjong is a game that originated in China, commonly played by four players. While the single-player tile-matching game mahjong solitaire is familiar in the West, the four-player table version is predominant in Asia. Similar to the Western card game Rummy, mahjong is a game of skill, strategy and calculation and involves a certain degree of chance.In different variants it has different tiles but it is always played by four players. There is little uniformity in the way Mahjong is played in various provinces in China and it is played in a different way in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Traditional Chinese Mahjong is played with 144 tiles (including 8 flower/season tiles) and some variants incorporate just 136 tiles (without flower/season tiles which are optional tiles used to apply bonuses).