Asian Gaming Culture
A Short History of Mahjong, From Tea Houses to Touchscreens
The game travelled through ports, living rooms, and app stores, and picked up a different set of rules at every stop.
The history, etiquette, and social rituals behind the tiles.
The game travelled through ports, living rooms, and app stores, and picked up a different set of rules at every stop.
Nine unwritten rules, collected from tables in Surabaya, Penang, and Hong Kong.
Bamboo, circles, characters, winds, dragons: a plain reading of the iconography and its regional variations.