Some Guide To Mahjong

In the eighties, when the world was getting acquainted to the tool called computers, a substantial number of betting companies started converting board & other popular games to program versions & created a revolution in the games industry. Such game was Mahjong. Roughly translated, this means chattering Sparrow & ancient tales claim that this name was given to the game because Confucius (game's creator) liked birds a lot. This game was extensively & exclusively played by the royal high class of the Chinese from the eighteen eighties (as far as written history goes) to the nineteen twenties. After that it was released around the globe & became so popular that the world faced an ivory shortage.

Because each country used to add their own rules & pics to the game, users in the United States found it hard to follow as a substantial number of playing methods & rules were developed. Mahjong or the Mahjong solitaire is not that ancient in the program version as its first distributed version was released by Activision in the year 1986. Activision had called the game Shanghai at that point & its creators were Brad Fregger & Brodie Lockard. Like its board counterpart, the program version also proved a success as over0 million copies of the game were sold around the globe.

The original Mahjong board in the Shanghai game consisted of 144 tiles- with each tile having a different picture of flowers, seasons, numbers & other things. The tiles are made out in to a grid which is higher in the central region (although that depends on the layout selected by the user). The layout is generated by the computer in a random format & it could differ in height, size & pattern. There can be over hundreds of layouts while several implementations also bringing in to fifteen minute time period for completion.

The aim of the game is that the user has to clear out the board by removing identical looking pairs from the layout. The pair is valid if it is of the same type, identical looking & free. There is other conditions which can be used for removing the tile pair - the first being that the tile has to be identical (example &, east & east etc.) & the flowers & seasons tiles can be used to pair up without them having to be identical. However, the pair has to comply with the rule that no tile to be lying on its left or right & no tile ought to either partially or fully cover it.

http://www.mahjongdragon.com/ is site which brings back all the classic formats & can be visited to relive the time in which stuck to the computer like glue watching & playing Mahjong.