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Gambling game played with tiles
Answer for the clue "Gambling game played with tiles ", 7 letters:
mahjong
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Word definitions for mahjong in dictionaries
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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 ]
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).