Once seen as an old-fashioned pastime, the Chinese game of Mahjong is having a moment.

In recent years, new players of all ages are strategizing and socializing over Mahjong tables from coast to coast.

Dima Zane reports on the tile game's resurgence.

At Lucky Danger, a restaurant in Washington, D.C.''s Chinatown, past the diners and the bar,

you'll find customers hunched over tables covered not in food and drink, but in tiles.

The really good players will memorize all the tiles that have come out and who put it down.

The strategy around Mahjong is to set yourself up to be lucky.

This hidden mahjong parlor is in part an ode to chef and owner to Ma's family.

He was born in Arkansas in the 70s, the son of Chinese immigrants.

It was the Sunday activity. There was mahjong. We would make dumplings. We would eat as a family.

So yeah, it's a very visceral memory.

When you set out to make this room, did you think it was going to kind of go where it went?

This room was very selfish. Me and my friends would come. We'd put a bottle of

berber down and we'd play Mahjong on night.

But what began as a passion project has paid off.

We started to see this room have more reservations than the restaurant.

That's when we started to realize, okay, like, there's still a lot of steam picking up.

In fact, Mahjong is having a moment.

Anybody play Mahjong in the house?

Yeah, there's a couple.

Celebrities count themselves fans.

I play Mahjong with my girlfriends once a week.

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