Mahjongg - A Game of Skill, Intelligence, Estimation and Luck
A tile game that comes from China is called Mahjongg. The word Mahjongg simply means, “The game of a hundred intelligences.” You will find many variants of the game. It is played with 136 tiles, which have Chinese characters and symbols on it. This is a game usually played by four players, each of them receiving thirteen tiles. The left-over tiles are put in the middle of the table. The game is played with each payer picking one tile and discarding another. When a player has formed a legal hand, which consists of four groups and a pair, he wins. If the fourteenth tile was from the wall it is said to be a winning from the wall, and if it was from a discarded tile, then it is said to be winning from the discarded.