| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| When: | On Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm 2nd & 4th week of month |
| Venue: | Member's Home |
~~ NEW MEMBERS WELCOME ~~
Capacity is 12 player (three tables) and preference will be given to regular attendees.
If you would like to find out more about this Group, please contact Jackie, the group convenor, using the email link at the top of this page.
Mah Jong is a popular game that originated in China but is played in many countries in the Far East and in the West, notably in the UK and the USA. Far from being an ancient game “dating back to Confucius”, it was only invented in the late nineteenth century. Its popularity spread to all parts of China, in good time to greet the large number of foreigners who began to congregate in Shanghai and other ports in the 1920’s.
The aficionados of the game took their newly discovered passion back to their home countries and the game spread to all parts of the world, just as contract bridge did, at about the same time. Mah Jong is a game for four players where hands are played at the rate of about one every 10 or 15 minutes.
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