Pung Chow; The Game of a Hundred Intelligences: Also Known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)

Excerpt from Pung Chow; The Game of a Hundred Intelligences: Also Known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling

Pung Chow is made to withstand the climatic conditions which soon destroy the article imported under the name of mah-jongg and the other corruptions of mah-diao, and it is the true and original Chinese game translated by the ad dition of numerals just enough to be readily understood and not enough to spoil the artistry of the tiles. The addition of numerals has been overdone in the marking of many of the cheaper imported sets, and give the appearance of having had numerals sprinkled on them regardless of where they may land and permitted to stay.

The fundamentals of this game' are simple and require only practice to master. The science of Pung Chow must in the greater part be studied out by the individual player and one may spend the rest of his life in attaining to past mastery in its thousand-fold intricacies.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.