![]() "When the tiles are faced down, the risk is that you don't know if they are useful for another player," said Thomas. "It was a little difficult at first, because in Western countries we're more used to chess," Thomas said.Īlso a student at Fudan University, Thomas was first introduced to mahjong by his Chinese-language teacher back in Germany. Each player initially receives 13 tiles, then draws and discards new tiles until they complete a hand using the 14th drawn tile to form four groups and a pair.Įssentially, one must make the most number of groups and pairs while also preventing other players from doing so.ĭuring a mahjong game hosted by the Global Times Metro Shanghai, Miguel's mate, Thomas from Germany, said that one of the biggest obstacles to learning mahjong is to unlearn Western-style strategic games. The rules are even more complex than the language. "It's different and difficult, but this makes it all the more appealing to learn," said Miguel. ![]() Players must have at least a cursory understanding of the Chinese language to learn all the characters of the game's 144 tiles. Mahjong, a tile-based game that originated in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), isn't for everybody. There is a growing number of foreigners in Shanghai who have become experts of the ancient Chinese game mahjong. Miguel was first introduced to mahjong after accidentally stumbling into a venue in Xiamen that he thought served tea after realizing it was a mahjong parlor, he tried his hand and quickly became addicted. The Spaniard studies at Fudan University for his master's and is one of a growing number of foreigners in Shanghai who have become experts of this ancient Chinese game. Both the Windows and Mac versions was also bundled together, along with the Windows and Mac versions of Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye, in 1997 as Shanghai Double Pack." Wo hu le!" shouted Miguel after winning a recent game of mahjong hosted by the Global Times Metro Shanghai. The game was later ported by SUNSOFT to the Sega Saturn on Novemand the Sony PlayStation on January 17, 1997, both released exclusively in Japan. Similar to Classic Shanghai, but players start with a smaller layout and tiles are added to the board over time (every 12 seconds for Easy, every 9 seconds for Medium, every 6 seconds for Hard). Beijing - From Shanghai: Triple-Threat, Beijing has players solve a 16x8 rectangle of tiles by both traditional matching and pushing groups of tiles along empty spaces of the row or column (giving a larger amount of points, with multiple pairs giving a multiplier).It also includes face-down tiles which cannot be matched. Matched pairs can cause tiles above them to fall down due to gravity. Instead of the layout having tiles stacked on their backs, it has tiles stacked upright like a wall. The Great Wall - From Shanghai: Triple-Threat.Classic Shanghai - The traditional game of mahjong solitiare, where players are given one of 13 multi-layer tile formations (one of which is the classic "Shanghai" layout) and must attempt to remove all pairs from the board.It is notable for including actress Rosalind Chao, then known for her role in the 1993 film The Joy Luck Club, in both full-motion video and voiceovers where she helps the player navigate the menus and gives a synopsis of each game mode. Part of the Shanghai series of games, Great Moments is a sequel to the 1990 game Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye and includes four game modes, most of which are from the 1994 arcade entry Shanghai: Triple-Threat, and nine tile themes, most of which are based on real-life art and pictures and have elaborate per-tile match animations. Shanghai: Great Moments is a mahjong solitaire game developed by Quicksilver Software and published by Activision for Windows PCs and the Apple Macintosh in 1995.
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