These pictures show mahjong enthusiasts playing mahjong under water in a swimming pool at a diving club in the Chinese city of Chongqing.
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Only participants with proper diving certification were allowed to take part in the underwater competition.
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Mahjong originated in Qing Empire and is commonly played by 4 players (with some 3-player variations found in South Korea and Japan).
<img title="These pictures show mahjong enthusiasts playing mahjong under water in a swimming pool at a diving club in the Chinese city of Chongqing" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/aug/underwater-mahjong-3.jpg" alt="These pictures show mahjong enthusiasts playing mahjong under water in a swimming pool at a diving club in the Chinese city of Chongqing" />
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Similar to the Western card game rummy, Mahjong is a game of skill, strategy, and calculation and involves a degree of chance.
It is played with a set of 144 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols, although some regional variations use a different number of tiles.
In most variations, each player begins by receiving 13 tiles. In turn players draw and discard tiles until they complete a legal hand using the 14th drawn tile to form 4 groups (melds) and a pair (head).

These pictures show mahjong enthusiasts playing mahjong under water in a swimming pool at a diving club in the Chinese city of Chongqing

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