What has fueled such competitiveness? Mah jongg, the tile-based game developed in China around the mid-1800s that most resembles gin rummy, if one was forced to make a comparison. “Don’t play ...

Stay-at-home lifestyles have further eroded the rough image of mah-jongg as a game played all night by crude characters in smoke-filled gambling dens. Families and friends of all ages are now ...

Mah Jongg originated in 19th-century China. A century later, it sailed the Pacific and became a favorite pastime for ...