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Speaker 1: Sydney is one of dozens of people here at Somerville's

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Speaker 1: Aeronaut Brewing for a sold out Wednesday tile club. Her

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Speaker 1: grandmother runs a Majong hall in the Philippines. She learned

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Speaker 1: how to play when she visited last year.

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Speaker 2: My family and I were like, hey, why don't you

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Speaker 2: teach us like how to play, So it's kind of

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Speaker 2: like our way of kind of bonding with her and like,

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Speaker 2: you know, hanging out with.

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Speaker 3: Her, and she taught us. And the year after, during Christmas,

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Speaker 3: we decided to play again.

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Speaker 1: And whether it's her or and Michael May and the

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Speaker 1: Patriot Wags, the already massively popular game is reaching more

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Speaker 1: and more new players every day. Thomas owe Ede runs

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Speaker 1: this title club with his girlfriend. He says he believes

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Speaker 1: these new clubs are getting popular because people are looking

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Speaker 1: for community and Majong is perfect for building it.

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Speaker 4: It's not a game you can play by yourself. You

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Speaker 4: have to play, you have to find four people to play,

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Speaker 4: and so like again, it always warms my heart to

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Speaker 4: see groups like this, to people who are complete strangers

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Speaker 4: at the beginning of the night and then they leave

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Speaker 4: and are exchanging phone numbers, are like I'll see you next.

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Speaker 1: Month, Shuffling tiles in Summerville. Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news

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