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A new contender in the Online Mahjong space, eMahjong presents itself as one of the best sites to play Mahjong against others. The downloaded software, in contrast to the website that it is taken from, is sleek and pleasing on the eye. The traditional Eastern music playing in the background, the greens and bamboo décor on the software itself succeeds in making the player feel as though he has been plucked from his living room and transported to a luxury Chinese gambling den.

Game Variety

Opportunities are offered to play games for money or to play for practise and the money games vary between various types specific to Mahjong, such as International, classic and Riichi. All games can be practised at the practise table and with a little exploration of the site a nicely made tutorial can be found. This tells the new player that Mahjong is essentially a Far Eastern version of Rummy kub.

Play at eMahjong

There are tournaments online as well as individual games with up to four players. There are a couple of problems with this site, the screen resolution if fixed for a bigger screen than the one my poor netbook has so I was restricted to seeing only about two thirds of what was on offer. Most people will be playing from their larger laptops or home desktop computers so that won’t be an issue, but still no self respecting gambling website should allow such a minor detail to cause problems to potential customers. The other issue and one that is as surprising as it is amateurish is that there is not a sign of a bonus in sight. There are simply no bonuses or freebies on offer anywhere to be seen on screen.

Summary

Despite these problems the game itself is remarkably addictive and fun to play, it takes a little time to figure out just how the game works but once you are into it, it is difficult to stop playing. Once the teething troubles of the site have been worked out emahjong could turn out to be an excellent site.

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