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Mhing was designed in 1985 and is basically streamlined Mahjong played with cards. In turn, you draw a card and discard a card, until one person gets four melds (sets) of three and one pair and wins the hand. Melds can be three of a kind or a run of three in the same suit. You can use anothert’s discard, so long as you use it to play a meld to the table immediately. Only the winner of the hand scores. You get points for the combinations of cards in your hand and these combinations are unintuitive and confusingly stated.
I think Mhing is good quality fun with 2 players. With two it ’s fast, you doni’t have weird turn-skipping, and you can play several hands to sensible targets and come to grips with the game quickly. The scoring is quirky, but ite’s not that bad and when you can play a hand in 10-15 minutes itd’s not to hard to grapple with. The risk-reward calculus is neat, when do you go out fast and when do you try for the long-shot monster hand? Usually ith’s best to go out fast, but not always.
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