Play Online Mahjong

Mahjong is a skill game for four players that originated in China. Mahjong involves skill, strategy,
and calculation, as well as a certain degree of chance and a lot of luck. Depending on the degree of
diversity which is played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant cause in success.
It was called 麻雀 in antique China and the name is still in active use in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Fujian,
Taiwan and Japan. Most Chinese, especially the Mandarin-speaking ones, however, now call the game simplified
Chinese: 麻将; traditional Chinese: 麻將; pinyin: má jiàng.

Mahjong called mah-jongg by the American association, Vietnamese: mạt trược. online Mahjong involves skill,
strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of luck. Depending on the variation which is
played, chance can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in success. In Asia, mahjong is
also popularly played as a gambling game in online skill games for money. In the game, each player
is dealt either thirteen or sixteen tiles in a hand depending on the game being played. On their turn,
players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds (also depending on the game)
and one pair, or "head". Winning comes "on the draw", by drawing a new or cast aside tile that completes
the hand. Thus a winning hand actually contains fourteen (or seventeen) tiles.