Mahjong is a board game for 2-4 players.

Unlike other Chinese board and dice games that is not Mahjong ancient, but only about 150 years old. The oldest written and archaeological finds indicate that the game originated in China first in the 1870s and it is likely that it was invented by the two craft brothers in the city of Ningpo in Chekianprovinsen, a city famous for its ivory-carving. Some oral sources claim, however, that the game for many centuries could only be played by the imperial court. The game would then have been of the highest aristocracy before it was permitted for ordinary people.