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Chinese tile game
Answer for the clue "Chinese tile game ", 7 letters:
mahjong
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits. 2 A solitaire game using the same tiles.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles [syn: Mah-Jongg ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mahjong , also spelled majiang , mah jongg , and numerous other variants, is a game that originated in Qing Empire . It is commonly played by 4 players (with some 3-player variations found in South Korea and Japan ). The game and its regional variants are ...
Usage examples of mahjong.
The night was hot and humid and he was playing mahjong with three of his friends.
He said John Chen was not drunk or bad-tempered, anything like that, but seemed in good spirits, though earlier at the club, the Tong LauClub, he'd appeared irritable and cut the mahjong game short.
They had raided three gambling joints but had, curiously, left five much more prosperous ones untouched even though they were on the same floor of the same tenement and he could hear the click of mahjong tiles and the cries of the fan-tan croupiers.
Her sidestep almost made her upset the ivory tiles of a mahjong player who made his living by matching wits against all comers (and maybe by unduly clever fingers as well).