Mahjong – One of China’s Accredited Game in Sports

Did you know that playing Mahjong has now an international rules. This is mainly because this game was considered as one  of the sports in China under it’s Sports Commission. The recognition was set last 1998 making this game as one of their recognized sport. Yes, it’s an original Chinese game yet versions in variety for this game was known in most countries.

Even though each countries has different set of rules in playing mah-jong yet similar of some of these rules were adopted to Chinese cultures way of playing this unique Mahjong games.

Standard mahjong tiles are in 144 tiles. And these suits are character tiles, circles and bamboo tiles. Honor tiles comprises of a wind tiles and dragon. Wind tiles are the North, South, East and West while the dragon tiles are the white, green and red tiles. Each tiles were made of 4 copies for each suit and honor tiles.

Counterclockwise is the order of the game played with four people. Each having it’s set of tiles. If you are one of those people who have not tried playing this fun game, try playing this online. Just read on the basics of the game and the rules on how to play this and you’re going to enjoy after knowing how this game is played.

There are different versions of the game online, but if you want to know and learn how Chinese people play this, just search for the original Mahjong online. Believe it or not, we at home bought our own tiles and from time to time, we play this game whenever we feel like boring and got nothing to do.