News Summary

• Mahjong is a game played with tiles that are larger than Scrabble tiles but smaller than dominoes.
• It came to America in the 1920s and had a resurgence in popularity in the 1950s, especially among Jewish women.
• The National Mah Jongg League, which was founded in 1937 as a way of standardizing rules for Americans, currently claims 350,000 members.
• Each player has 13 tiles, drawing and discarding one at a time until she has matched them all in specific arrangements of two, three and four sets.