Mahjong is a popular tile-based game played by four players. Unlike card games, Mahjong is a game of skill and strategy where you manipulate tiles to form special combinations or 'melds' that gain you points. The game involves the use of symbolic tiles, with each player attempting to be the first to form a legally-defined pattern and gain the most points.
At Philippine mobile casinos, Mahjong is played with the same rules and setup as the traditional game, with the only difference being that it is adapted to be played on the phone.
The goal of the game is to be the first player to build a legal Mahjong hand and score the most points. To complete a winning hand, a player must have four sets of three tiles and a pair, called a 'head'. This is the basic winning condition. The hand must also contain at least one 'meld', which can be either a 'pung', 'kong', 'chow' or 'eye'. A 'pung' is a group of three identical tiles, a 'kong' is four identical tiles, a 'chow' is a sequence of three tiles, and an 'eye' is a pair of two identical tiles.