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MCP #82 Mahjong Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 4/4/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


MCP RUN #82
Welcome to the MCP Run.  This series is dedicated to games, hence MCP or Must Come Play.

I bet you all thought this was named after Mrs Captain Picard.  Come on, we all know that's what you thought.

Hope you enjoy the series.



Mahjong


 

Mahjong is a game for four players that originated in China. A Korean variation allows for three players. Mahjong involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of luck (depending on the variation played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in winning). In Asia, mahjong is also popularly played as a gambling game. In the game, each player is dealt either thirteen or sixteen tiles in a hand, depending on the variation being played. On their turn, players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds (also depending on the variation) and one pair, or "head". Winning comes "on the draw" by drawing a new or discarded tile that completes the hand. Thus, a winning hand actually contains fourteen (or seventeen) tiles.

Group, I'm getting tired of making web pages. The descriptions may start getting shorter. Hope you don't mind. Mindless babble, mindless babble, mindless babble.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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