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SHANGHAI MAHJONG SCORING HOW TO

The four players sit around a square table, withĮach seat representing one of the four compass directions.

The game is sometimes called "Chinese Poker" in the online poker sites, although there are only four players are allowed to play the game at the same time.

Some sets use a die, some use a spinner or dial. There are variations to the device used for Special die marked with the four wind directions, used to denote the "prevailing You may also use poker chips,Ī scorepad and pencil, M&M's, money, whatever you wish. Printed on them to denote the value each represents. These are often in the form of "sticks" with dots Is paid in nickles, quarters, $100 bills, whatever.) The Game PiecesĬonfiguration at the beginning of each hand. (Some play Mahjong for money, much as you would Poker, where the "score" After several hands are played, the player with the highest To form a specific hand before your opponents do. Of the game is to obtain a collection of "tiles" I haven't played Rummy yet, so I have to take their word for it.) (At least that's what people have told me.

SHANGHAI MAHJONG SCORING HOW TO

Here you can learn how to play Mahjong, and play a four player (About like the similarities between the Western games of Poker and Canfield Solitaire-theyīoth use the same cards, but are vastly different games.) Same playing pieces as Mahjong, but otherwise bears no similarity to this game. "Mahjongg") which is popular on computers. Solitaire game (often called "Shanghai" or "Taipei" or even To compare these rules with the variation of Mahjong played in Hong Kong.)īy "Mahjong", I am referring to the ancient four-player game, not the Than the significantly modified Western version of the game. The rules I'll summarize are going to be closer to the original Chinese rules I learned to play it while living in Taiwan (A Province of China), so

) is an ancient Chinese game, probably dating back thousands