Mahjong (Traditional Chinese: 麻將; Simplified Chinese: 麻将; Pinyin: m�ji�ng; Cantonese: m�hjeung; or Chinese: 麻雀; Pinyin: m�qu�; Cantonese: m�hjeuk; other common English spellings include mahjongg, majiang, and hyphenated forms such as mah-jong or mah-jongg) is a game for four players that originated in China. It is a game of skill, intelligence, calculation and luck. Depending on the variation which is played, the amount of luck may vary from 20 to 80 percent. In China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and other countries mahjong is often used for gambling. The Chinese word 麻将 literally means "hemp general". In Cantonese an alternate writing, 麻雀, is more common (the same kanji are used in Japanese). In Cantonese this literally means "sparrow", while in Japanese it means "hemp sparrow", and is pronounced mā-jan.

again I copied it from wikipedia.
Mahjong

This post has been edited by fujkenasai: Jun 2 2009, 02:58 PM

I was really into this game two years ago when my friends were still with me and I played two different rules of mahjong with two group of friends. One was the rule that is being used in China for competition and the other was a compromised miniscule rule that is being played by people in our region.

This game is adictive as we played for the whole night like for six hours straight and then we go to sleep after that. Does anyone else play this game?

are u goin to teach us how to play?

Yar why not.

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This post has been edited by jojoko1982: Apr 24 2012, 09:44 AM

4 people mah jiong is more challenging, more strats and skills involved.

3 person mahjong very fast can eat..
Can play more games in 1 night

Want to play eating game play 2 people, and try to get 8 folds and above before you can eat see how many games you can play at 1 night.

Yahoo! Games has Mahjong (online) if you need a quick fix. They have four sections there. The expert section there plays with three 'fan' rules and people there are usually from HK and China.

I used to hang out there many years back, when I was overseas.

yea i guees most of the chinese play, it's a chinese game

i love this veri much

learned fr hong kong's fren while studying in aussie

we used to play for 3 days 3 night.....all 3 day s only mahjong
of course, makan, tidur, mandi as usual la, just din go out, coz that time winter, damn cold.............

alwizs "***" ppl one, play with hong kie veri funny one, they will scold all sorts of funny rude word one.

eg,
when they want to discard "8 tong"..(know as "hak cheh"(black car, coffin, undertaker car) they will say...nah, "pei lei fen" meanings...give u sit inside.

"3 suk" ...known as underwear...they will say " wash ur underwear"

canton mahjong veri nice....got da shan yuan, shi san yau, qing yi se...etc

1 suk(the one wif bird" ...they will say "lo hoi hum"....take it and suck it!!!

interesting!
my family's fav alltime game! not to mention rammi as well!

hey anybody in seremban can teach this game ?? or got interactive online tutorial ?? hehe i only can play 3kaki 1 ...and that also im not very good..i can play basic only..but when i play with friends, they play til pro , somehow they can name out all the cards im waiting 1...dont know how they so geng...they say by seeing i throw what cards every turn they know liao ... swt..thats y i cannot gamble mahjong, if not lose money til pants drop

hahaha! when you practice enough or seasoned mahjong player...will know..
cos if 3 ppl mahjong...tiles are limited...

I play majong too... but in diff kind of majong it's call lami...
like the card games...
2 pack of card game combine 1 n make it like majong...
it's fun... i'm not really know how to play majong...
but this lami... i can call pro la...
when it's CNY i play wif my family member all lose accept me...
bet wif oly RM1 i also can win till RM 60~80...
it's also a psywar games... majong also right?
i think this 2 games r nearly the same la...
but majong more hard to play izit?
bcos lami is jus follow the number to play...

4 ppl mahjong is dem headache la..i prefer 3 ppl coz can chit chat and its faster.

4 ppl mahjong comes with extra "sok chi" and "man chi".imagine la how many extra combinations and extra thinking needs to be done.zzz.somo if 4 ppl mahjong got big "fan" sure lose like hell.if play 3 ppl mahjong 10cents/20 cents at most lose rm8 only if char wu.(don't count fei along la,different ppl different price for fei)

i like to play also, prefer 4 person one cuz more strategy and combinations. 3 ppl ones are boring.

btw i dont play for $$, just for fun.

but if no play $$ will feel bored ?
get 大三元，大四喜 also nothing after finish the game....
anyway... bet is not a good habit la...
小赌移情，大赌就.....

So how many rules are there all in all..
How much does 3 people or 4 people game rules differ from each other?
I'm also interested in learning how to play :-)

4 ppl game 1 round can take hours!

i prefer 3 player game.. much faster to "eat yam"
HAHA