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Rules of the game of MahJong
Mahjong is generally played with 4 people though it can also have 2, 3 or 5 players. A full game has 16 hands of play in four rounds named after the four directions- east, south, west and north in that order. Each player has a particular direction/wind, starting with East for the first player. Generally, the first player is selected by throwing the dice. The player with the highest score gets to be the first player.
The object of the game of Mahjong is to build complete suits (usually of threes) from either 13 or 16 tiles. The first person to achieve this goal is said to have won the game. The winning tile completes the set of either 14 or 17 tiles.
The next step is to build the wall which means to arrange the tiles in a stack. The tiles are mixed well and arranged in 18 stacks (two tiles one on top of the other) in a horizontal row in front of each player in the form of a square. The stack is then broken and the tiles distributed among the players according to a particular format so that each player has 13 tiles each. The rest of the tiles are known as the wall and are kept in the middle.
Each player begins to discard the tiles and drawing from the wall.
The objective is to get 4 sets and a pair. A set of tiles may be a sequence of three consecutive same suit tiles (CHOW) or three identical tiles (PUNG) or a set of 4 of a kind (KONG).
The game ends when one player has finished accumulating the 4 sets and a pair.
The game is said to be a "draw" if none of the players manages to win by the time the wall is exhausted. There are many variations in scoring in mahjong.
It involves determining the points; multiplication of the points according to applicable doubles; and determining the payment. There are also penalties for breaking certain rules. The points defer based on the sets: sequences, melded triplets, concealed triplets, melded fours and concealed fours.
A player wins a Mahjong round by creating a standard mahjong hand. Some variations may also require that winning hands be of some point value. A full game of Mahjong ends after 4 rounds.
New international rules have been formulated for mahjong for international championships and tournaments like the World Championship. The new rulebook contains 80 combinations of patterns and scoring elements based on traditional as well as modern variants of the game.
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