As players discarded tiles and picked up tiles from others, the player who got four sets of threes and a pair won. The mahjong set had numbers written on tiles’ top left corners, in addition to the ...

Well, you’ll be pulling off those numbers, but only if you can ... God I wish I could cheat this mercilessly in real mahjong. The one area where the tiles don’t quite line up is in presentation.

Mahjong, a tile-based game with Chinese origins, has seen a surge in popularity in Tallahassee and across the nation. The game, often compared to "crosswords for numbers nerds," involves strategy ...