Mahjong vs. Rummy — What's the Difference?

Mahjong or mah-jongg (English pronunciation: mah-JONG, Mandarin Chinese: [mǎ.tɕjâŋ]) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. It is commonly played by four players (with some three-player variations found in parts of China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia).

Rummy is a group of matching-card games notable for similar gameplay based on matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build melds which can be either sets (three or four of a kind of the same rank) or runs (three or more sequential cards of the same suit).

A game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with tiles resembling dominoes and bearing various designs, which are drawn and discarded until one player wins with a hand of four combinations of three tiles each and a pair of matching tiles.

A card game, played in many variations, in which the object is to obtain melds of three or more cards of the same rank or three or more consecutive cards of the same suit.

A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.

A drunkard.

A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain.

Odd, strange, or dangerous; rum.

A Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles.

A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.

Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles

A rum-drinking alcoholic.

Resembling or tasting of rum.

Peculiar; odd.

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

Strange; odd.

One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.

A chronic drinker

A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards

Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;