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Mahjong, a four-player tile-based board game, is popular in the Chinese cultural sphere. It originated in China and is commonly known as "mahjong" in the Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, and Fujian regions, and as "mahjong" in the Fuzhou region. Mahjong is a gambling game invented by ancient Chinese, used for entertainment. The game pieces are typically small rectangular tiles made of bamboo, bone, or plastic, with patterns or characters engraved on them.



Different mahjong rules vary from province to province
the reason why rule is important, quote from The Great Mahjong Book: History, Lore, and Play

 Just like a set of cards, a set of mahjong tiles can be played in many ways. All the playing  variants have their own rules, peculiarities, and appeal. Besides that, many house or club rules circulate. If you’re invited for a game of mahjong, then it is necessary to inquire which variant will be played. Yet, despite their differences, all these variations on the game are based on the same basic rules. If you are just learning to play mahjong, you should start with these. 

Rep, Jelte. The Great Mahjong Book : History, Lore, and Play, Tuttle Publishing, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=868757.

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Guangdong mahjong

Leakage sum

If player A is in A bid and Player B plays A card that player A can play and player A gives up the feud, then player A cannot play the same card against either player C or Player D. Unless player A has a move card situation, the move card means to touch, up, bar, mold card. When a card is moved, the rule of not being able to match that card is lifted.

More than one shot More than one shot is allowed, and if more than one shot includes the dealer and the card, the dealer continues to play the next round. The characteristic of Guangdong mahjong is "fan", which means twice.

Explosive sum

Another feature of Guangdong mahjong, explosion and (capping), means that the number of times is the top, no longer superimposed numbers for calculation, except for special cards, such as thirteen, can break through the explosion and restrictions, these special card types are no longer superimposed other kinds of.

The explosive sum is 3 times.

Taiwanese mahjong

Sixteen cards: Each family takes sixteen cards at the opening.

Card, touch card placement: the same as Jiangnan mahjong.

Even village, pull village: Even village, that is, do a village continuously. They add more to each successive farm. Leisure can put forward to the banker "pull Zhuang", that is, the total number of lost to the banker, leaving one third for the next set of bets.

One gun three rings: a "heavy" and three eat together.

Hefei mahjong

Eight branches: and cards need to have more than eight cards in a door.

And cards: do not eat cards, do not touch cards, there must be eight branches.

Roll: With two rolls, roll once. The wall with the sum of the dice as the beginning of the grasp, with the minimum number of points as the starting count. For example, 4 points plus 5 points is "nine since the hand", starting from the wall in front of their own door, but starting from the fourth town.

● Basic Rules

A. In the first game, the first to take the seat is Zhuang.

B, after the first bureau, through the gun, followed by home.

● 'hu' card rules

Small and: four happy (the opening touch the same four cards), no will and (the opening did not touch the 2.5.8 of these three card types), lack of one color (the opening did not touch any of these cards), six smooth (the opening touch any two cards three each), peace.

Yamato (" Containing small and "- indicates that the card type can be small and card type, but the grand and) : seven small pairs, touch and, will and, all colors, flowers on the bar, grab the bar and, the moon in the sea.

Super sum: Luxury seven pairs (there are four identical), flowers on the bar + touch and will or will be or all colors or all, or seven small pairs or luxury seven pairs, touch and + will or will be or all colors or all flowers on the bar, or all colors or all flowers on the bar.

Maximum and: Deluxe seven pairs + all colors + Haystack Moon touch and + will and + full seek man + Haystack moon or flower on the bar.

● Other Rules

There are only three kinds of cards. Undersea card roaming, tying birds, through the gun, filling, leaking and, floating, Xianggong.

Guizhou mahjong

Guizhou chicken mahjong:

Brand type: 1-90 thousand 1-9 tubes 1-9, can touch, bar, not allowed to eat. Guizhou mahjong is similar to Sichuan Mahjong, with some changes made on the basis of Sichuan Mahjong.

1, catch the chicken mode: that is, after opening the next untouched card, such as opening 20,000, that is, 30,000 is the chicken card; The open is nine tubes and one tube is chicken, and so on. In some areas, Yiji is also counted as a chicken brand, and the first Yiji to play is called "charging chicken", which is twice or three times. At the end of the game, the player in the listening state each has a chicken card plus one, unlimited cards in the hand, play out the chicken card as long as it has not been touched, are counted as their own cards. In this way, the person with the card may lose money, and the person with the card may win money, which is the unique place of Guizhou Mahjong.

2, pass: the bar card is called "pass", and the hand has the bar card can be played with others, otherwise it can only touch itself.

Sichuan mahjong

Sichuan mahjong adopts the popular mahjong playing method in Sichuan, especially the popular playing method in Chengdu and its surrounding areas. Mahjong only cylinder, strip, ten thousand three doors; Lack of door can be Hu; One person is responsible for firing the cannon; And the cards are multiplied. It's a straight line. The last four must be good, must be good.

Sichuan local mahjong also has the following characteristics:

Vegetarian mahjong, can not eat, must be absent door can and (except in some areas, such as Nanchong), the last four automatic and, more than one gun, wind and rain.

Chengdu mahjong is also called the bloody fight to the end. The game must be missing a door, a family and cards, if there is a specified number of cards on the table, other players must continue to play until the end.

Yunnan mahjong

The game of Yunnan mahjong is based on the popular mahjong playing method in Yuxi area. Including ten thousand, bar, tube, word four kinds of color, a total of 136. The number of people in the game is 4, each person grabs 13 cards, can not eat cards, can only touch cards and bars, cards meet the relevant provisions of the card type conditions and cards, peace must touch not point guns, the game begins to open the last two; Flowers on the bar turn over two tail cards: As the name suggests, before the game starts, the two cards above the tail card in advance, the player can cooperate with the two cards, after the call, when the two tail cards are opened, any one of the cards you call, if you have the bar can be on the flower, must be on the bar to take the tail card, can not bloom on the bar from the back of the unopened card.

Yunnan mahjong basic play and card rules

1, peace must touch, big-name type can point guns can also touch themselves.

2, point gun point gun point is only responsible for and card type points.

3, and if the card is self-touch, according to the card type, the three lose points; If it is a shot, according to the card type, the shot loses points.

4, when playing cards, in their own not touch the next card in a circle, can not abandon the first Hu after.

5, the last four cards, if someone points the gun is automatic and card, self-touch must also be and card.

6, flow bureau check shout, bar money is not.

Card type score line card rules

1, in addition to the first set of randomly selected one dealer, after each set of first and card for the next set of dealer, many people at the same time and card (a gun more than sound) point the first house for a set of dealer.

2, can not eat cards, can only touch and bar.

3, bright bar: players have the same three cards in their hands, idle home play the same card as the player, the player's bar card is called bright bar. The idle player who plays a card gives the player 2 points.

4, dark bar: the player has the same three cards in the hand, in the process of playing a card to touch the same card, the player bar card called dark bar.

5, turn bar: after the player touches the card, in the process of playing. The player touches an identical touch card, and the player's bar is called the turn bar.

More specific description of mahjong's origin from nyu library
A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture, Oxford University Press

“Visitors to Shanghai who ride past any of the clubs,” satirist Elsie McCormick wrote in Shanghai’s China Press in 1921, often heard a strange clicking. But the sound, she continued with racially and class-​ inflected humor, was not “the daily dishwashing stunt of Ah Ling in the pantry and the subsequent chipping of perishable porcelain.” Rather, they were hearing “the galloping ivories of China,” which were “rounding out their usual sixteen-​hour day in the foreign community.” Thus, the American McCormick informed her readers of the burgeoning expatriate love affair with mahjong. In a widely circulated quip, McCormick even facetiously posed the unthinkable: a future in which the esteemed game of bridge was unknown. “The day may not be far off when an innocent little daughter will sidle up to mother with a dusty card in her hand and ask what it was all about.

Heinz, Annelise. Mahjong : A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6524250.

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'''Rep, Jelte. The Great Mahjong Book : History, Lore, and Play'''

Mahjong Racks Mahjong racks are another very handy accessory. They help with the building of the wall and angle your tiles for easy viewing during the game. One of the racks has a different color and is reserved for the player with the East Wind. Mahjong racks come in many varieties. They’re rarely sold with a mahjong set and are usually purchased separately. When buying a rack, try your tiles on it first to make sure they don’t stand too upright, which will make them difficult to see. And take good care that the racks are not bent, since this will make them spin around, which can be a great source of annoyance (a counting stick slid under one of the bent ends offers a temporary solution).

Rep, Jelte. The Great Mahjong Book : History, Lore, and Play, Tuttle Publishing, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=868757.

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