Mah jongg, an ancient Chinese game played with domino-size tiles, is a favorite pastime for many Jewish women in Northeast Ohio. They play "maajh" in each other's homes and at sites ranging from hotel lobbies and grocery stores to synagogue social halls.
Read more...From left: Bill Hale, Joyce Broughton and Iris Davidson engrossed in a mahjong match up at McKee Centre in Ladner. The game of skill, strategy and calculation originated in China and is similar to the Western card game rummy. The mahjong group at McKee Centre has been together for many years.
Read more...I expect to encounter gamblers streaming across the border for card games when I visit western Iowa - at least when I'm all the way over in Council Bluffs where the Nebraskans flock to our largest casino district.
Read more...Long ago, Gus's served the town as a combination grocery-clothier-bar-feed store. Now, it's a bar, with an astounding taxidermy collection and an uncertain future. Photos: The "Animal Bar"
Read more...Do people still play cards? I mean other than poker or something online? When I was growing up, and actually for about the first half of my life, it seemed as though you could find card games happenin
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