I. Eat: If two of the tiles in any player's hand plus one of the tiles just played by the previous player happen to be a straight, he can eat the tiles.

Self-drawn: This is where you grab the last card to make a hu

Third, touch: If a player plays a card, and he or she has more than two cards in his or her hand that are the same as the card in question, he or she can choose to "touch" the card. The first is to play a card that is the same as the one played by the opponent. After you touch a card, you will get the card played by your opponent, plus the two identical cards you have provided to become a carve, and you can't play this carve again.

Four: The first of the four players to draw is the winner. It depends on the detailed rules of the game.

Mahjong, a four-player domino game, is popular in Chinese cultural circles. Originally from China, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and southern Fujian region commonly known as sparrow, invented by the ancient Chinese gaming game, recreational tools, generally made of bamboo, bone or plastic made of small rectangles, engraved with patterns or characters.

The origin of the cylinder in mahjong

We commonly known as "cake", it is actually a grain silo Tun top view, that is to say, "tube" is an abstract screenshot. We can combine the search for a grain silo diagram. Storage of grain, people with mats around a barrel-shaped column space, grain stored in it, in order to prevent leakage of rain, the top is two circles of grass mats in concentric circles stacked cover knot.

So, from the grain silo directly above looking down, we see the abstract thing is a "tube", two grain silos is two "tube", and so on to the "nine tube and so on to "nine cylinders". Later, because of the war spread to the south, the call appeared on the pronunciation of "cake", is a kind of look at the map, but this error is also very common inherited, so that people understand the history of mahjong more and more far away.

The above references? Baidu Encyclopedia - Mahjong