Mahjong is a game that originated in China. It is played with four players. It is a game of strategy, skill, intelligence, and luck. Luck can play a big or small factor depending on the situation.

In Asia, mahjong is very popular being played as a computer game or in casinos as a table game.

By 1895, Stewart Culin, an American anthropologist, wrote a paper in which free mahjong games was mentioned. This is the first known written account of free mahjong games in any language other than Chinese. By 1910, there were written accounts in many languages including French and Japanese.

An important English read was Joseph Park Babcock's Rules of Mah-Jongg, which, simplified in 1920, was simply known as the "red book".

Although this was the earliest version of free mahjong games that had been introduced to America, many of Babcock's simplifications were abandoned when the 1920s fad died out.

Many similar English language rulebooks, some of which contained inaccurate rumors (including those of the National Mah Jongg League, the governing body of American free mahjong games).

A patently false claim was made that free mahjong games had originated in ancient China in order to bring an air of mystique into the game. Ironically, the urban legend about free mahjong games's ancient origins is recycled today to promote free mahjong games solitaire, a much newer game.

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