America has Poker, China has Mahjong and as we discovered on our latest trip, they have a Mahjong table that just blew my mind!
My mother-in-law play Mahjong everyday with the neighbors, and most of the time she wins. But even she doesn't have one of these tables.
We were visiting my wife's aunt and cousins when they unveiled this to us. I was so blown away that we almost went out and bought one for ourselves.
Basically, you dump you Mahjong tiles into the hole that opens up the the center. The table then mixes and stacks the tiles, face down (how does it know?), into four neat rows, two tiles high, and pops them up from underneath. If you have two sets of tiles, one is always inside the table ready for the next round, so you never have to wait.
It's just wild!
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