All About Mahjong
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Useful Facts on Mahjong
Mahjong comes as a game that has originated in ancient days of
Chinese civilization. It has still remained as a popular game across
Asian people, more precisely for people living in Singapore, Japan, and
Hong Kong. This game has been spread also in Western countries and due
to this fact, its original format has seen a transformation brought in
by some of the countries that have adopted it.
There are many articles written on the way of playing this game, on the
strategies that can be included during the playing, but this article is
meant to try a different approach to the game focusing mainly on mahjong
tables.
If you are a mahjong player you must know already that the game itself
begins with manually shuffling the tiles, but there are some locations
where the noise that these tiles make during shuffling can disturb the
people from around. This can happen mostly when this game is played
inside closed areas, such as apartments for instance, where this noise
can be amplified making it to become more annoying.
Apart from this factor, when talking about Mahjong tables, there is also
the factor related to the 'feel' of the game where the type of table
definitely affects this factor. This is the reason why you will see many
Mahjong players bringing in their own set of tiles to start a session
that was previously planned.
Considering these factors, many of the companies involved in
manufacturing various tools for playing games, have taken the
responsibility of designing and building various styles of such tables
in the attempt to come forward the Mahjong players' needs. Taking it
generally, we can say that t here are 4 types of Mahjong tables:
standard, foldable, mini and automatic.
The standard types are the most common ones. These tables can be folded
once in order to save the space for storage and their dimensions come in
either 33" or 34".
- The foldable type of table will enable you to fold the table up to a smaller size - 1:10 ratio of the original format. In this way there is provided an easy storage of this item. Not to mention that it makes its carrying around a lot easier than with any other type of Mahjong table.
- As to the mini tables, they come usually in 1/3 size of the standard style. You should know that these styles are not meant to be used for playing, but rather for decorating purposes. Many choose to have them presented even as special gifts. They come most of the times with mini tiles being sold as a Mahjong set. These sets display as well delicate imprints in a miniature size making them be so appreciated for the decorative purposes.
- Automatic tables come with pre-game setup including features such as shuffling the tiles, throwing the dice, and racking of tiles.
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