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If you have ever walked the streets of Hong Kong or any
Chinatown in the world, you undoubtedly heard the distinctive
sounds of mahjong tiles being stirred up. In the past,
tiles were made of bone and bamboo, but today's tiles
are usually made of plastic. All Mandarin Orange mahjong
items are made exclusively with vintage bone and bamboo
tiles.
Mahjong is similar to the card
game Rummy where the goal is to accumulate sets. The
Chinese game set usually includes 136 or 144 tiles,
however, these numbers can also vary depending on where
the set was made and where it is played. All mahjong
products made by Mandarin Orange include a tile explanation
card so that your customers can easily distinguish the
tiles they have in their item.
There are three suits: bamboo (tiao),
circles (bing), and numbers (wan). In addition to the
three suits there are also wind tiles of east (dong),
west (xi), north (bei), and south (nan), as well as
the dragon tiles of red dragon (hong zhong), green dragon
(fa cai) and white dragon (bai da).
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