Tuesday, March 6, 2007

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.