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MAH JONGG CRIMES!

If you are starting to tire of the Mah Jongg games currently available online, here is a new and exciting game:

 

Solve Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express in Mahjong Crimes

Unravel the puzzles to reveal clues and crack the mystery…the game is afoot! Mahjong Crimes is now live and available for free on iOS and Android exclusively from Spil Games. Mahjong Crimes delivers your favorite elements from the classic tile game, but with a fascinating twist! Tap into your sleuthing skills as you investigate, search for clues, and solve puzzles while immersed in the world of Agatha Christie’s famous Murder on the Orient Express.

Amsterdam — 9 November 2017: It’s one of a kind. Puzzling out classic, intriguing Mahjong leads you to expose the truth in the world’s most famous murder mystery, Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. 

Available for free from today on iOS and Android, Mahjong Crimes, exclusively combines the classic tile game with the lavish period settings of Agatha Christie’s great detective story.

The plot thickens In an all-new take on one of the world’s most popular games, 250 levels of Mahjong Solitaire unlock clues as you travel through 5 different scenarios within Agatha Christie’s iconic mystery. As you climb into your elegant compartment aboard the Orient Express, you’ll be faced with 1 of 7 inscrutable varieties of the classic tile-matching game. You may have to beat the clock to reveal a hidden clue. Or the tiles may have letters rather than Chinese characters, and matching those letters spells out an important facet of the case. It is endlessly entertaining and is the only Mahjong game to feature an Agatha Christie murder mystery.

“It’s amazing to see Agatha Christie’s story taking shape so brilliantly in this 21st century medium,” says James Prichard, Chairman and CEO of Agatha Christie Ltd (who also happens to be the extraordinary writer’s great-grandson).

The facts of the case Mahjong and Murder on the Orient Express: two timeless classics combined into a single great game…

  • 250 challenging levels, in 5 scenarios from Agatha Christie’s mystery
  • Power up to get ahead in the game
  • Collect unique Mahjong tile sets
  • The game stays fresh with more levels, mysteries and tile sets added regularly

Watch the trailer! See screenshots from the game here! Download now on the app store

MAHJONG CRIMES is now available for free on iOS and Android!

ANNOUNCING THE PUBLICATION OF MY NEWEST BOOK!

I am delighted to announce that my new book, MAH JONGG – The Art of the Game, is  now
available for pre-order at a special price on Amazon.com. This coffee table book is being
published by Tuttle Publishing and will be available on September 9, 2014. I wrote the book with
my dear friend and very talented writing partner Gregg Swain and we are fortunate enough to
have photographs by the incredibly gifted Michel Arnaud.
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Before we introduce today’s teacher by the name of The Mahjong Lady, I want to thank my
wonderful friend K for clearing up the mystery of the Bams from yesterday. Here is
what she had to say:

Sweet set! Have a closer look, the all green painted bamboo tile has 6 pieces of bamboo, the bamboo pieces just are not separated. The bamboo tile with the red, blue and green has 9 pieces of bamboo, also no separation in the bamboo pieces. Just count the lines and you can tell the 6 bam from the 9 bam. In this case it is just a little bit harder to see, the different color in the paint sure helps.

Thanks, K!

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Today’s posting features a very talented and creative Mah Jongg teacher by the name of Ling
(Lin) Maris, aka The Mahjong Lady! She teaches American NMJL but will also teach you Wright
Patterson if you have an interest.
More about her creativity in a moment but first, a little history. Ling started out teaching the
Wright Patterson game of Mah Jongg. As she explains it,
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“Any time you want to learn Wright Patterson,  I would be delighted to teach you. This is how I
originally started teaching.  It is an entirely different game of mahjong than League style.

There are no jokers, legal hands are listed in a book which generally does not change more than every 5-10 years.    It is not played with flowers in the hands, but the flowers give bonus’ and the scoring system is like the complex  Chinese scoring system.  I believe WP is the game imported to the US originally –   that first popularized mahjong in the USA – so it is probably  mahjong American style about 1914-15.

Now,  I believe it is quite popular with the various branches of armed forces because of its long length uniformity.  Wherever one is stationed, you will play mahjong the same with very few changes occurring. (No new card every year). The problem with this style-no matter how interesting,   is that few people realize it exists. No one really plays it unless you have some exposure to a base or are from the south.  I learned it from a southern  army brat because it was the game of the officers wives and she learned from her mother.

I began teaching WP, thinking it was a whole new undiscovered mahjong territory  – to discover I had more requests for League mah-jongg. Everyone wanted to play what their neighbor was playing – not this exotic “not real” mahjong. So I became a League style teacher and it blossomed.”

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