Right… ignorance combatted it’s time to look at the latest release of the popular video game, this time for the Nintendo 3DS. The original Mahjong is, in fact, a Chinese version of our game Rummy whereas Mahjong Solitaire, the game popularised on PCs everywhere, was made for computers in the Eighties. It actually turns out that what we know as Mahjong – the computer game involving sets of tiles stacked on top of each other in various layouts with the aim of removing all the tiles by pairing them up like a tile-based snap until all are gone – is actually Mahjong solitaire, which uses the tiles of the game of Mahjong for a completely different purpose for which they were invented. For Mahjong, you need a box of tiles, the ability to stack them and lots of, er, patience, to reset the grid. If you fancy a game of patience or poker or snap there’s little more required than a pack of cards and the ability to shuffle. In fact, it’s a fact I didn’t know until I jumped onto an online encyclopaedia to check how Mahjong was played in “the real world” as I imagined that, unlike most similar games of skill and variety, it must be a pain to set up. I’m going to start this review with a quick impersonation, that of BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright, and deliver to you a fact that you probably don’t know.
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