Mah-jong Crazy

It's the reason I didn't get this post in before midnight, it is the reason my day drifted into oblivion, night falling before I knew it.  Computer Solitaire is a dangerous concept, extremely antisocial, stupidly addictive and a complete guzzle guts of time.  My computer is loaded with 9 versions of solitaire from memory, and seeing as I have finally turned off the dam application for the night, I'd rather not reconnect it just to get a tally right.  So I started with your basic solitaire game, otherwise known as Solitaire, moved onto Spider Solitaire, then Free Cell and today Mah-jong. I thought, you know what, why not give it a go, its my chance to make sense of a game wrapped in mystery, a game for excellent old people from China, mostly ladies and quite sophisticated ones at that.  Isn't it funny how childhood memories live with you?
Give Mah-jong a go, it’s quite easy, allows you to improve quickly, keeps you on your toes and the tiles can be laid out in different configurations for fun I suppose. I'm not going to give away any winning strategies here; you can work that out yourself.  Instead I'll report that as it turned out, the layouts appearing easiest can throw a few curve balls at you until you get to grips with it. In the end I managed to clear the board a number of times and feel good enough after a good few hours that if I went to rural China and found a group playing Mah-jong, I think I have learnt enough to join in and give them a run for their money, or dumplings or whatever it is on offer.

SUGARBEE XX   29/10/12