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    Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling
    Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling
    Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling
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    Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling - Lew Lysle Harr

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      Title: Pung Chow

      The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling

      Author: Lew Lysle Harr

      Release Date: November 23, 2008 [eBook #27318]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNG CHOW***

      E-text prepared by K. D. Thornton, Louise Pattison,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      Contents of This E-Book

      NOTE

      PUNG-CHOW

      INTRODUCTION

      SUMMARY OF THE GAME

      DESCRIPTION OF TILES

      PROCEDURE OF PLAY

      FOUR OF A KIND

      MAH-JONGG OR MAH-DIAO

      SETTLING THE SCORES

      SUGGESTIONS FOR CAREFUL PLAYING OF HANDS

      USE OF THE MANDARINS

      SCORE CARD

      EXAMPLE OF HANDS AND HOW THEY ARE SCORED

      ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCORE SETTLING

      PART TWO

      PLAYING WITH A LIMIT

      THE PROCEDURE OF PLAY

      BONUS SCORES

      LIMIT HANDS

      SCORING VALUES

      EXPLANATION OF ITEMS IN THE TABLE OF SCORING VALUES

      DOUBLING HONOR SCORES

      PENALTIES

      EXAMPLE OF WINNING HANDS

      TWO AND THREE-HANDED GAMES

      Table of Contents

      ERRATA

      Transcriber's Notes

      Transcriber's notes and corrections are highlighted like this

      , and Errata noted in the original book are highlighted like this

      . Mouse over the underlined text to view notes.

      PUNG-CHOW

      THE GAME OF A HUNDRED

      INTELLIGENCES

      Also known as

      MAH-DIAO

      MAH-JONG

      MAH-CHEUK

      MAH-JUCK

      and

      PE-LING

      By L. L. HARR

      HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers

      New York and London

      Copyright, 1922

      By L. L. HARR

      Printed in the U. S. A.

      NOTE

      Mr. L. L. Harr's skill in the game of Pung Chow has been acquired through more than twenty years of intimate contact with the business and official circles of cultured Chinese in Canton, Shanghai, Tientsin, Pekin and other centers of China. Mr. Harr has enjoyed more opportunity to mingle in polite Chinese society than any other European or American resident I knew in China.

      Mr. Harr, in consequence, was perhaps one of the first foreigners who learned the game from the best players in China. What is more, Mr. Harr's unusually keen appreciation and enthusiasm were largely instrumental in arousing the popularity of this extraordinarily fascinating Chinese game in the Western Hemisphere. To use a familiar American phrase, Mr. Harr was unquestionably one of the pioneers who put PUNG CHOW on the map west of Suez.

      Mr. Harr has not only brought the game to America, but has written the first authoritative book on Pung Chow, based on the best modern methods of Chinese play.

      J. D. BUSH,

      Professor of English Literature,

      Pekin National University,

      Pekin, China.

      January, 1923.

      PUNG-CHOW

      Score Card

      For Hands Played Without a Limit

      Winning Hand Bonus Scores

      Combination Scores

      Doubling Honors

      See page 65 for scoring values when hands are played with a limit.

      INTRODUCTION

      Out of China has come this stately game with the lure of Oriental mysticism to whet jaded appetites and with possibilities for study that challenge the keenest intelligence.

      There is a mysticism about the Oriental and his mode of life that challenges the imagination and induces a curiosity hard to decipher. The dress of the Chinese, their strange customs, their difficult language, and their apparently impenetrable mask-like faces appeal to the fancy and throw a veil of mystery around even the commonplace.

      The origin of this game is lost in the mist of centuries past. There is, though, an oral tradition to the effect that it was originated in the Court of the King of Wu, now known as Ning-Po, during the year of 472 B.C. to entertain his consort and her court ladies and to help them while away the time

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