| 20100301561 | Q Mahjongg Game Played With A Chinese Poker Deck - A card game with similarity to mahjongg is played by two to four players with a deck of 52 cards containing five wild cards, three suits with nine numbers in sequence and five groups of four identical cards in which a series of hands are played in which each player progressively takes a turn starting as the dealer and each hand is scored to come up with a total score and the total scores for all the hands in the series of hands are added up for settlement. Each hand is begun by dealing each player seven cards and using the remainder of the deck as a draw pile. A drawing player (other than the dealer whose discard starts a discard pile) takes one of three steps. First, if the drawing player has four of the same cards, the player can declare a gong operation, draw another card, and then proceed again with another gong operation or one of the following two steps. Second, the player can end the hand by declaring a winning hand containing a pair of identical cards and two triplets; the triplets can either be a pong group of three identical cards or a tsee sequence of three consecutive numbers in a single suit of cards. Third, the player can discard a card face up on the draw pile. The play follows sequentially unless another player out of sequence invokes a rule for picking up the top card in the discard pile. | 12-02-2010 |
