How to Play Mah Jong [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION TO REVISED EDITIONMah Jong is a game that fascinates from the very start. The beauty of the tiles, the conception behind the various preliminaries, the combination of chance and skill, all tend to provoke an immediate response from those just introduced to the game, and the rare logic and deiiniteness behind the rules increase the interest as the unlimited possibilities are unfolded through continued playing.The game itself is not unsimilar to the American game of "Rum.my," or "Cooncan" as it is sometim.es called, and is easy to leam. Some difficulty is at first experienced in the scoring, but the converse of this becomes apparent as soon as the rules governing*" scoring are learned, and the variety of plays discovered. To the uninitiated, the scoring seems to be as incapable of comprehension as the characters of the originators, the Chinese. But, once the central idea is grasped, progress is rapid, and the values of the various combinations then require little forethought to estimate. The mainiii