Classic Mahjong is a four-player, 144-tile strategy game of Chinese origin, often likened to gin rummy. Players draw and discard tiles—suit (bamboos, dots, characters), honors (winds, dragons), and bonus tiles (seasons, flowers)—to form a winning hand of four sets (pungs, kongs, or chows) and one pair. The goal is to achieve “Mahjong” by collecting a specific, 14-tile winning hand, usually comprised of four sets of three and one pair.
