Mah-Jong Launched At Ladbrokes Games
Published: Monday, February 27, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
MAH-JONG LAUNCHED AT LADBROKES
Two thousand year old Chinese game debuts online
Ladbrokes Games has given impetus to its recent boast that it would be looking at Eastern markets by launching multi-player Mah-Jong, a four player tile game which originated in the Far East over two thousand years ago and has steadily grown in popularity all around the world.
The launch of the game is the first in a series of game additions to the Ladbrokes site in the coming months. To play the game, each player is dealt 13 tiles from a set of 136, the goal being for the first player to make a winning hand by matching sets of tiles before the other three players.
Mahjong tiles are divided into 108 common tiles and 28 honour tiles. Common tiles are split into three suits (Bamboo, Characters and Circles) numbered one to nine and these are duplicated four times. The honour tiles are split into winds (North, South, East and West) and dragons (Green, Red and White) and again these are duplicated four times.
To make a winning hand in Mah-Jong, players have to put the tiles in sets of three: either three identical tiles (Pong) three in a row from the same suit (Chow) or a set of four identical tiles (Kong), but they must always finish on a pair. Play continues until a player makes and reveals a winning hand or if the game ends in a draw. Due to the similarities in rules, Mah-Jong has been likened to Rummy.
The 'lobby' section on Ladbrokes Games, enables players to see how long they have to wait to play a game of Mah-Jong by showing them how many players are seated and waiting for a table to become free. As well as notification in the lobby, once a player commits to a table, the subsequent 'waiting' screen keeps them updated as more players join the table. This encourages players to wait until the full complement of entrants has arrived before starting to play.
Ladbrokes is currently offering Mah-Jong on both its English and Chinese language sites.
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