Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Interesting and enjoyable mahjong games.

A lot of Mahjong games is available online now. Its fun and interesting. There are a lot of games like Mahjong solitaire, Mahjong Towers Eternity, Mahjong Quest, Mahjong Artifacts, Stone-JOng and more. You can play mahjong game online and enjoy the free demo downloads. 3D version of Mahjong Solitaire is one of the best free versions of online mahjong game. By playing the mahjong solitaire online, you need to match tiles in pair to remove them and you will win the game when the tiles in the game field is empty. Enjoy the Mahjong games now.

Download the Mahjong solitaire game by the following website.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

How to play Mahjong – Part 5

The first player will have 14 tiles and the following players are 13 tiles. Why the first players have to take 14 tiles? This is because the first player will need to throw one of his/her unused tiles out on the table for the others player. Players can decide to “chow” , “pung” and “kang” . But only the next player can “chow” , the third and forth player can only “pung” and “kang” .

Below is the explanation of “chow” , “pung” and “kang” :

“Chow” : Consists of 3 tiles. Player need to use 2 of his/her tiles which need to be a sequence number of the tiles which throw by previous player and it must be in the same type.
san shi wu wan

“Pung” : Consist of 3 tiles. Player need to use 2 of his/her tiles which must be exact same type of tile.
san wan pung

“Kang” : Consist of 4 tiles. Player need to use 2 of his/her tiles which must be exact same type of tile.
san wan kang


While playing
Pictures show that the game is resuming.

tiles view
The way of a player in adjusted the tiles

Play with throwing out the unused tile out to the table
Players throw out the unused tile out to the table.

How to play Mahjong – Part 4

Right now, let us discuss and investigate about the way to start a mahjong game. The picture below showing a four players mahjong matches. Each player sit a side of a table which mean “East” , “North” , “West” and “South” . The first player who throws the dice will be the “East” . Mahjong game will be start will counter-clockwise, which continues by the second player which is “North”. But the tiles will be taking follows clockwise. The player who gets wrong in getting tiles will not able to win the mahjong match.

Make the tiles confuse and rebuild it
Before the mahjong match start, players need to adjust and push the tiles to confuse the tiles to others.

Mahjong Starting
The mahjong will be start with the first player and continue to the second players.

Once the dices is throwing, player need to count the total number of the dices in order to start to take the tiles. All tiles are facing down, no one is able to simply open it or take it. Players need to follow the sequences and the rules of the mahjong during the match. The starting player needs to take 4 tiles in the first time, and the following of player will be taking the same amount of tiles. Each player will need to take 3 times of 4 tiles with 12 tiles. After that, the first player needs to take 2 more tiles with jumping. What it mean by jumping, it means the first player need to take the first and third above tile, and then the second player will take one tile and following by third and forth player with taking one tile also.

Friday, February 9, 2007

How to play Mahjong – Part 3

According to the previous post (How to play Mahjong – Part 2), most of the people have the understanding about the Mahjong already. From now, let me explain how to play Mahjong and the rules we need to follow.

Mahjong need to be play by 4 people in one table. Basically Mahjong is not very hard to learn, but need very experience in order to win the game. Lucky is also one of the things that need when playing Mahjong. To play a complete Mahjong, players need to prepare a square table which suitable for use of 4 players.

Before the game start, each player need to throw the dice (3 dice will be use in mahjong) to select who will be the first person to throw. The highest roll person will take the first place which is “East”, and then the following higher number will be the ”North”, the third person with ”West” and the last with ”South”. The wind tiles for each player is depend of the site they are. Which means the first player who is “East” can be throw the dice in the particular game.

Players need to complete all 4 wind place in a Mahjong game. The first wind place is “East”, second is “North” and the following are “West”, and then the last one is “South”. Each player got a chance to throw the dices in a circle / round. After the last player of the round throw already, then that round will be end and the wind place of that round will be terminate and change to the next one which is ”North” and soon. The player who throw the dice and win on a particular game will have a chance to throw the dice again.

To be continue.........

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

How to play Mahjong – Part 2

A set of Mahjong tiles will be different from place to place. Each of the Mahjong tiles having different meaning. Let us find out what exactly a set of Mahjong tiles have.

108 suit tiles which consist of 36 of Dots tiles, 36 of Bams tiles and 36 of Characters tiles.

Dots



Each tile of dots consists of a number of circles. Different dots tile consist of different number of circle and are start from 1 to 9. We also call dots as “Tong” in mandarin.

Bams


Bams can also call as lines or Bamboos stick. It consists of 1 to 9 lines or bamboos stick in each bam tiles. Bams so call “Suo” in mandarin.

Characters



Name of each character tiles represent ten thousand or “Wan” in mandarin.

28 honors tiles which consist of 16 of Wind tiles and 12 of Dragon tiles.

Winds



Wind tiles consist of East tiles, South tiles, West tiles and North tiles. In mandarin, the wind tiles is call “Dong”, “Nam”, “Xi” and “Pei”.

Dragons



Dragon tiles consist of 3 different characters which are red tile (“Zhong”), green tile (“Fa”) and white tile (“Pai”)

8 bonus tiles which consist 4 seasons and 4 different animals

Flowers



Flower tiles consist of 4 seasons and 4 different animals. You can also add 4 more flower to play more fun.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

How to play Mahjong – Part 1

Before we start to learn how to play Mahjong, first get yourself a set of Mahjong to see what tiles in the Mahjong and the meaning of each tile. Each Mahjong set price is around USD40 (cheapest price) to USD150++ or in Malaysia price with around RM120 to RM500++. OK, let us start the training now;

A full set of Mahjong consists of 144 tiles which include 108 suit tiles (character tiles, dots tiles & line tiles), 28 honors tiles (wind tiles & dragon tiles) and 8 bonus tiles. Each of the tiles having different meaning, to able to win a game, we must make sure all the tiles we have are match to each others in order to win a game.

To be continue.................

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Simple Knowledge and Understanding of Mahjong

Mahjong is a four player’s game. It must be played with four players on a table and the game is goes around a circle. Each player got a change to draw a card from the tiles on table in a round of anti-clockwise circle and player can organize their titles into a winning format or so call winning hand to win the match. If the tiles haven’t get to the winning format, then player will need to throw one of the tiles or so call cards from their set of tiles they have.

Mahjong can be playing in many different ways. For those people who are just starting to play mahjong, they are choose to play in an easy way which is make your titles into a winning format and game the match. In this method, players no need to make their tiles to earn any point to match the game. They only need to make sure their tile is in a winning format.

For mature players, they are choose to play in points earn method. The meaning of point’s method is players need to organize his/her tiles into a winning format with getting points. The points that a player earns will consider the mark that he/she will get. Rules of point earning will be formatted by the players themselves. There are many way to earn a single point from tiles. A mature player will organize their tiles in a way to earn more points to win more marks.

Mahjong is a very strategy, flexible and varies games. In order to become an expert or professional player, more practices and strategy mind and thinking is important. But it also need a bit of luck with you to get a good and wonderful tile on your first get the tiles and luck in the turn of draw cards.

To be continue..................

Friday, February 2, 2007

The History of Mahjong

Mahjong created since 4000 years before. During that time, Chinese aristocrats were the only people who know to play the game. Mahjong is a very mystery and interesting game and the rules of mahjong is fantastic. When the times China become a republic since 1911, Mahjong become a public knowledge of the world. The Mahjong is introduced to United States in 1920. With a short time, Mahjong becomes very famous and extending in the whole country. Unfortunately, Mahjong was played with different rules and become not standardized. But fortunately, during the year 1925, a standardized set of Mahjong rules was set. The standardized set of rules have been make the Mahjong become more fantastic and a lot of people would like to play Mahjong to spend their holiday or during the gathering.

To be continue.............................