We all know Sudoku, monopoly and even chess, but have you heard of Mahjong? mahjongg is maybe one of the most played games around the Internet, yet many people never heard or played it.

So what is Mahjong?The classic Mahjong board game is mainly designed for four 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 origins in China and considered very popular in Asia, thanks to the free online world and especially the online games sites, it is rapidly penetrating the western markets.

Mahjong is a game that demands many abilities- Strategy, skill and also calculation skills, but like many board games, luck is of the essence.In the old Mahjong game, each player is dealt either 13 or 16 tiles in a hand, depending on the game kind.  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 great board game, like many that appear lately. Lots of classic games experts feared that the rise of the Internet will decrease the love of the classic board games we used to play, like Checkers, chess etc. but it looks like not only those games didn’t suffer a reduction in numbers, their popularity increased as many of them are using the Internet platform to be distributed all around the globe.

Well, you might 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 your search provider and look for this phrases- Mahjong, mahjongg and mah jong , each answer will award you with a nice leisure time activity game.

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