Pung Chow; The Game of a Hundred Intelligences e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Pung Chow is made to withstand the climatic conditions which soon destroy the article imported under the name of mah-jongg and the other corruptions of mah-diao, and it is the true and original Chinese game translated by the ad dition of numerals just enough to be readily understood and not enough to spoil the artistry of the tiles. The addition of numerals has been overdone in the marking of many of the cheaper imported sets, and give the appearance of having had numerals sprinkled on them regardless of where they may land and permitted to stay. The fundamentals of this game' are simple and require only practice to master. The science of Pung Chow must in the greater part be studied out by the individual player and one may spend the rest of his life in attaining to past mastery in its thousand-fold intricacies.