Mah-Jong 2
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This is a new Maj-Jong Group commencing on Thursday 21 July with an eight week beginners course of two hour sessions per week. The course is aimed at absolute beginners, but this should not stop someone who can play joining the group. We will be playing BMJA rules. The course will teach you in easy manageable steps the very basics of the game, then how to score the game and finishing the course with how to play with tally sticks.
Once the beginner’s course has been completed, we will check if there is sufficient interest to continue playing, bringing in new players as and when. We meet at 14:00 to 16:00 every Thursday starting on 21 July in the Frank Reynolds Community Centre, Dorchester Road, Weymouth. |
If you are interested in joining us, please contact Martin sharpe - Group Leader
email: mahjong2@dorchesteru3a.org.uk telephone: 01305 816642 |
Mah-Jong
Mah-Jong it is an ancient Chinese game (NOT like the Mah-Jong game you find on your computer where you just match two identical tiles against the clock). It is exciting and fast flowing, using skill and strategy and very enjoyable - you could decide to play to go Mah-Jong and win the game or alternatively play to lose a game and let another player call Mah-Jong. It is your decision! You will learn when and how to make that decision and become the outright winner.
The game can be played with 2, 3 or 4 players, picking up and discarding tiles. At the start of play, each player is dedicated a wind, i.e. EAST WIND (E), SOUTH WIND (S), WEST WIND (W) and NORTH WIND (N) and are each dealt 13 tiles, with 1 extra tile being dealt to East Wind from a square wall consisting of 144 tiles. There are seven types of tile, engraved with symbols known as ‘CIRCLE’, ‘CHARACTER’, ‘BAMBOO’, ‘WIND’, ‘DRAGON’, ‘FLOWER’ and ‘SEASON’.
The AIM OF THE GAME is for each player to attempt to assemble FOUR sets of tiles, with each set consisting of 3 or 4 tiles plus one ‘PAIR’ of identical tiles. The tile sets are named ‘CHOW’, ‘PUNG’, and ‘KONG’, which form either a DIRTY HAND or a CLEAN HAND. Alternatively, a player may attempt to assemble the tiles into a unique pattern, known as ‘SPECIAL HANDS’. The winner of the game is the first player to lay down a completed hand by going/calling “MAH-JONG”.
The tiles have different values, which are called Minor and Major/Honor tiles, hence it is advantagous to form sets with Major/Honor tiles as these are more valuable. Once somebody has formed the corrrect sets / sequence of tiles, they call Mah-Jong, with each player scoring their hand. The overall winner is the person with the highest score or the most number of tally sticks at the end of play.
Mah-Jong it is an ancient Chinese game (NOT like the Mah-Jong game you find on your computer where you just match two identical tiles against the clock). It is exciting and fast flowing, using skill and strategy and very enjoyable - you could decide to play to go Mah-Jong and win the game or alternatively play to lose a game and let another player call Mah-Jong. It is your decision! You will learn when and how to make that decision and become the outright winner.
The game can be played with 2, 3 or 4 players, picking up and discarding tiles. At the start of play, each player is dedicated a wind, i.e. EAST WIND (E), SOUTH WIND (S), WEST WIND (W) and NORTH WIND (N) and are each dealt 13 tiles, with 1 extra tile being dealt to East Wind from a square wall consisting of 144 tiles. There are seven types of tile, engraved with symbols known as ‘CIRCLE’, ‘CHARACTER’, ‘BAMBOO’, ‘WIND’, ‘DRAGON’, ‘FLOWER’ and ‘SEASON’.
The AIM OF THE GAME is for each player to attempt to assemble FOUR sets of tiles, with each set consisting of 3 or 4 tiles plus one ‘PAIR’ of identical tiles. The tile sets are named ‘CHOW’, ‘PUNG’, and ‘KONG’, which form either a DIRTY HAND or a CLEAN HAND. Alternatively, a player may attempt to assemble the tiles into a unique pattern, known as ‘SPECIAL HANDS’. The winner of the game is the first player to lay down a completed hand by going/calling “MAH-JONG”.
The tiles have different values, which are called Minor and Major/Honor tiles, hence it is advantagous to form sets with Major/Honor tiles as these are more valuable. Once somebody has formed the corrrect sets / sequence of tiles, they call Mah-Jong, with each player scoring their hand. The overall winner is the person with the highest score or the most number of tally sticks at the end of play.