Mahjong

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The NES Item:Mahjong (Doubutsu no Mori+) can be used to play Mahjong in video game form.

Mahjong is a real-life tile game, originally created in China, presumably around the year 1800, near Shanghai. Due to its growing popularity, it was exported to occident in the early 1920. It's usually known to be a gambling game, played in specialized Mahjong Parlors or in street gang's private buildings, but currently, as its popularity among younger people diminished, it's also played casually in family homes. Mostly older people play it, as newer generations tend to find it difficult to learn and remember all hands, rules, variations, and combinations of such that can differ from house to house or parlor to parlor.

Mahjong can vary in many different aspects, as homes / parlors tend to choose different rules based on what they may expect other players to do during the game (ex.: Some places may allow cheating, others may disallow winning on the discard tile, etc.), and there are also many variations per countries, prefectures, states, and even cities. The tile set consists of 3 numbered suits, with 9 Number tiles (in kanji), 9 tiles with Bamboo shots, and 9 tiles with three-colored Circles; 2 honors, with 4 tiles representing Winds directions, and 3 tiles with red, green, and white Dragons. Other popular variations may include 4 bonus tiles representing Seasons, and other 4 bonus tiles representing 4 kinds of Flowers. Hands change depending on the.

Winning consists of the player constantly discarding tiles in their hand to collect other tiles that could be paired (by having two of the same), kept into triplets (by having three consecutive numbered tiles or three of the same), or making other far more elaborated hands that require keeping certain tiles and waiting for the last one to complete the winning hand.

Mahjong played in the NES game (Doubutsu no Mori+)

The variation used to play the game is the japanese Riichi Mahjong, which consists of 13 tiles (a hand of 12 tiles and 1 disposable tile), lacking on the Seasons and Flower tiles previously mentioned, but played mostly the same as the other variants, again only changing in the rules, this time decided by the game's developers.