China: Playing mahjong at Black Dragon Pool Park north of Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan Province. Mahjong is a game that originated in China, commonly played by four players (with some three-player variations found in Korea and Japan). Similar to the Western card game rummy, mahjong is a game of skill, strategy and calculation and involves a certain degree of chance. In Asia, mahjong is also popularly played as a gambling game (though it may just as easily be played recreationally). The game is played with a set of 136 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols.

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