The interface is extremely smooth and well coordinated. The game is best played using the mouse to manipulate tiles and access the various menus. A complete game has a minimum of sixteen hands and very often more.Ī strong point of design in Hong Kong Mahjong Pro is the ease with which the game performs many of the possibly confusing functions of actual game play, such as the proper rotation of the players and compilation of points including a screen that shows how the hand was scored with updates on player wins and losses. A game consists of four rounds, with play proceeding counterclockwise until someone wins or all tiles have been drawn from the wall with no winner (called a dead hand). The 144 tiles are made up of three "suits" (bamboo, circles or characters) numbered 1 to 9 (4 of each for a total of 108 tiles), four winds (east, west, south, north) (4 each for a total of 16 tiles), four flowers (only 2 each for a total of 8 tiles), and three dragons (white, red, green) (4 each for a total of 12 tiles). The object of the game is to have one player be the first to assemble a "complete" hand which is defined as four Sets and one Pair (14-tiles total). As in gin rummy, players have the option of claiming a discarded tile (it must then be played immediately as part of a set) instead of taking one from the wall. Each player then receives 13 tiles (from the wall) and proceeds to take turns selecting a tile from the wall and discarding one into the middle of the table.
Four players, representing east, south, west and north, sit around a table and stack the 144 tiles into a square "wall". Although seemingly complex, the game is actually easy to play but very difficult to master. Traditionally, Mahjong is played against three opponents utilizing a 144-tile set. Unlike the many versions of solitaire Mahjong which have proliferated on home computers in the last decade, Hong Kong Mahjong Pro is the real deal.
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