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Ancient tile war disguised as a polite family game, where grandma will end you.
means A four-player game of Chinese origin played with engraved tiles that are drawn and discarded to build a winning hand of suits, honors, and matched sets.
from From Mandarin 麻將 (májiàng), the modern name; the older and more poetic name is 麻雀 (máquè), 'sparrow,' said to evoke the chattering clatter of tiles being shuffled — like a flock of birds. The game took its recognizable form in 19th-century China and was carried abroad in the early 20th century, where 'mah-jongg' became a Western craze and a trademarked spelling.
- origin
- Emerged in 19th-century China, exploded in 1920s America
- tile count
- 144 tiles, four players, infinite betrayal
- name meaning
- Means sparrow, from the clacking of shuffled tiles
- banned once
- Mao's China outlawed it as bourgeois vice
- solitaire myth
- The PC matching game isn't real mahjong
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