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Digging Flowers

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Digging Flowers, called Wa hua in Chinese and also known as Dachen Mahjong, is a tile-based game similar to mahjong and rummy in which four players compete to form their own winning hand of 21 tiles using melds of two- and three-tile sets. Like mahjong, players build their hands by both drawing from a shuffled wall and acquiring discards from other players. The literal meaning of its Chinese name is dig flowers. Its rules therefore combine the meld-building of rummy with the wall-drawing and discard-claiming of mahjong, and every one of the four players aims for a complete hand of 21 tiles.

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Small Group (3-6 Players) 1
Wikipedia infobox (Digging Flowers) players field: '4'
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Tabletop Game 1
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Tile-based game similar to mahjong and rummy 1
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1. Digging Flowers (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section, first sentence
    is a tile-based game similar to mahjong and rummy in which four players compete to form their own winning hand of 21 tiles using melds of two- and three-tile sets.
  • Infobox, players field
    4
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