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From: chou@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Chih-Hsiang Chou)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Mac ``mahjongg'' - lost mail/responses
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Date: 8 Feb 90 19:30:52 GMT
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In article <377@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes:
>
>Pet Peeve: Shanghai, and the PD implementation GunShy ARE NOT MAHJONGG!
>
>In fact, the only vague similarity that they have with MahJongg is
>that they happen to use the same tiles.  Please do not confuse the
>"concentration" style pairing game with the complex and interesting
>multiplayer gambling game as found throughout China, Japan and even
>here in the United States.

	You are right that Mahjong (or Mahjongg) originally refers to
the 4-player gambling game. The confusion, as far as I know, has arisen
ever since someone wrote a public domain version of Shanghai for the
Sun workstation and named it Mahjongg, at least three years ago.

	To add more confusion, there is in fact a Mahjongg gambling game
available for the IBM PC and compatibles. It is called "Taiwan Mahjongg".
Please don't ask me how to acquire it as I don't know neither.
-- 
Chih-Hsiang Chou	chou@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota