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A set of standard Mahjong tiles A set of Malaysian Mahjong tiles. Mahjong tiles (Chinese: 麻將牌 or 麻雀牌; pinyin: májiàngpái; Cantonese Jyutping: maa 4 zoek 3 paai 2; Japanese: 麻雀牌; rōmaji: mājanpai) are tiles of Chinese origin that are used to play mahjong as well as mahjong solitaire and other games.
There are many highly varied versions of mahjong both in rules and tiles used. "Old Hong Kong mahjong" uses the same basic features and rules as the majority of the different variations of the game. This form of mahjong uses all of the tiles of the most commonly available sets, includes no exotic complex rules, and has a relatively small set of ...
Ponjan (ポンジャン), also known as Donjara, is a kids version of the table game mahjong played in Japan.Ponjan (also spelled Pom Jong in English) has three types of tiles: cars, boats and airplanes.Ponjan is a portmanteau of 'pon,' or 'pong,' the word for calling a triplet, and 'jan,' or 'jong,' the second syllable of the word mahjong.
Tiles and cards can be inscribed with a single letter or character for each tile/card. These tiles/cards can each be duplicated any number of times, at different frequencies, depending on the objective of the game set being produced. Anagrams is a traditional word game that can be played with any set of alphabet cards or tiles.
Japanese mahjong is usually played with 136 tiles. [7] The tiles are mixed and then arranged into four walls that are each two stacked tiles high and 17 tiles wide. 26 of the stacks are used to build the players' starting hands, 7 stacks are used to form a dead wall, and the remaining 35 stacks form the playing wall.
American mahjong utilizes racks to hold each player's tiles, jokers, and "Hands and Rules" score cards. It has several distinct gameplay mechanics such as "The Charleston", [1] which is a set of required passes, and optional passing of the tiles. American mahjong is played with four players using mah jongg tiles.
The following are video games based on the game of mahjong. Pages in category "Mahjong video games" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Shisen-Sho (四川省, Shisenshō; "Sichuan Province"), sometimes referred to as 'Shisen', 'Four Rivers' or simply 'Rivers,' is a Japanese tile-based game which uses Mahjong tiles, and is similar to Mahjong solitaire. The objective of the game is to match similar tiles in pairs until every tile has been removed from the playing field.