Chinese Official Mahjong Rules

Mahjong is a Chinese game of skill, which involves four players. The game played in general is similar to all the versions of mahjong. However the game pieces and scoring slightly differs depending on regional variations.
Online Mahjong game is almost similar to gin, rummy, while the object of mahjong is to build sets, as well as get the highest point value. In order to do this, each player selects and discards tiles (the game pieces, bearing different designs) until an entire set of combinations has been made.
For this article, we will cover the Mahjong Competition Rules (Chinese Official) or the Official International Rules, which gained recognition as the 25th sport by the State Sports Commission of China in January 1998.
So let's start the ball rolling (in this case, the dice), and begin learning Chinese Mahjong Rules and playing mahjong.

The Mahjong set

The basic Mahjong set has 144 pieces, which contains 36 distinct kinds of pieces (4 of each kind). There are three suits, which run from one to nine.