Mikael Hart wrote:It's not that hard. You start off with 13 tiles (except the first person who starts out with 14) and try to get four sets and one pair (or "eyes"). One set will have three tiles, and you can get a set by collecting the numbers on the tiles consecutively (like 3,4,5, or 7,8,9); however, they all must be ones of the same type (all lines, Chinese characters, or circles for that set). You can also collect three of the same type and number (like 5, 5, 5 or 8, 8, 8) --basically, three of a kind.
That's pretty much all there is to the game.
There are also North, South, East, West tiles, and red tiles (forgot what they meant), green "money" tiles, and mirror tiles that you can collect as a three of a kind. There are also two types of special tiles that may give you extra points in the game called "fa." There are only eight of these tiles in the whole game, numbering 1-4 in red, and 1-4 in blue. That only makes a difference if you're gambling, though.
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Americans play Mahjong differently than we do. They do it "solitare" style that has little to do with the Chinese style of playing, as far as I know. It's kinda a matching game that uses Mahjong tiles.
Oh! Thats very similar to another game that I've played. Its called rummikub. You have tiles that are numbered 1-12 that come in four colors(blue, red, green, yellow). There are also four tiles that have a face on them. These act as wildcards. Like in four winds, the goal is to match up sets of similar or consecutive tiles.![[[Ayame]]](ava/20624.jpg&m=1 "[[Ayame]]")
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