The Joy of Mah Jong - Paperback

by Tong Seng Tjoa M. D. (Author), Tong Seng Tjoa (Author)

ABOUT THE BOOK Mah Jong game was invented in China many centuries ago. Since early last century, it's popularity began to spread outward beyond its border to all continents. This is undoubtedly due to its very entertaining and sociable nature. The author offers the readers in this book a clear, simple road map for playing the Chinese classic game. The readers will learn: - the principle to achieve the game goal, - the way to achieve this goal is based on one of the three fundamentals, - the Hand is made up of distinct features, - the composition of this Hand in turn is to fulfill the requirement of one of these fundamentals, - those features with individually codified value are the contributors of fans (points) which together determine the final value of a completed Hand, - simplified method of settlement. - An overview of play procedure