Introduction – Overview
Four Winds is based on
traditional Chinese board game for four players. The origins of Mah Jong
can be traced back to set-forming card and domino games played for
centuries in China, but in its present form the game has been played only for
about a hundred years. Mah Jong was introduced to America and Europe in
the 1920’s and is now popular all over the world.
Mah Jong is usually played by four players. In Four Winds a human
player has three computer opponents. You can select your opponents from
four different types of players: Beginner, Defensive, Expert and
Limitmaker.
Since the game is played all over the world, there are several
variations of the rules and scoring. Four Winds Pocket PC version supports
the most common variations based on the classical game: Chinese Classical
(labeled European Contemporary), Japanese Official and Hong Kong
Mah Jong.. The game comes with eight pre-defined rule presets, which
the user can customize in many ways and save as user-defined rule presets.
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