

Aside from the suits, there are also four “Winds” tiles and three “Dragons” tiles with four duplicates. The suits then have four identical copies each. Tiles are mainly ceramic or porcelain rectangular cuboids with printed “suits, honors, and bonuses.” These suits are usually split into “dots, bamboo, and characters,” with numbers going from one to nine. The game is played using tiles, dice, and a set of printed markers. In the US, it first gained popularity in the 1920s and was usually stylized as “Mah-Jong” instead. It slowly spread through East Asia and Southeast Asia before being introduced to the west in the 19th Century. Mahjong itself is an old tile-based strategy game that comes from Qing China in the 18th Century.

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