1. Take one of each wind tile and place face down. 2. Shuffle. 3. Everyone take a tile. 4. East chooses a seat and others sit accordingly. Gg What's your point? The OP was describing how the Japanese do it, which is what most on this forum are interested in. The Japanese system is elaborate, and th...

gemma wrote:(Apart from the "pro's" typo. That one has been irritating me for a while now.)

Yeah. The apostrophe is totally inappropriate. "Pros" might look weird, so if you don't like "pros" then you could say "pro players" or "professionals" or "professional players"

I sympathize on several counts. The economy has been hard on many of us; I too have had to reduce expenses, including dropping my subscription to Ron2. And I know how hard it can be to try to keep a community positive. This forum is very much needed, since YakitoriOnline crashed and burned and since...

FAQ 25: http://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/yaku/yaku.htm

So you have to sit on the floor when playing at this table?

Magic the Gathering, a collectible card game with lots and lots of different cards. Thank you, I know what Magic is (I have a deck). I didn't know that's what MtG stood for. And I wasn't expecting a CCG reference in this context. Ryulusus, American mah-jongg is like Magic the Gathering??? Care to e...

http://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/special.htm
http://www.sloperama.com/mahjongg/malaysian.htm
What is MtG?

ryulusus wrote: at least the PDF deck will be much more complete.

Do you also have the Malaysian "fly" and the cat, rat, cock, worm, fisherman, fish, Liu Hai, 3-legged frog, Zhao Gong Ming, pot of gold, and Chinese "100 uses" tiles?

ryulusus wrote:Tom, do you want me to Photoshop the image of the Vietname Mahjong Rules where the kings and queens are?
No problem at all, you doubled the South Queen, if you want I can try to correct it

I fixed the image on page 5 of the Word doc. You can re-download it and delete the old file.

"ryulusus" wrote: >I did, what I meant by doing the same thing is, that by trippling the Jokers there is absolutely no game difference in a rectangulared emperor and a circled emperor Your original question was why have tripled jokers. While there is no difference between them during the play of the...

ryulusus wrote:O... k...
So we have eight jokers which suposedely do the same thing but they are tripled? Why?
Can anone help?

Did you read the two files at http://www.sloperama.com/downlode/mahjongg/ yet?
The eight jokers do not all do the same thing.

Shirluban wrote: I know Vietnamese rules are on Tom Sloper's site, but I can't find where.
I've a copy if you want, but you'd better ask Tom directly.

http://www.sloperama.com/downlode/mahjongg/

I've noticed that a lot of users' posts contain the dual string /' in place of apostrophes. Perhaps this is because their computers automatically insert "smart quotes" (left-and-right single-quote marks rather than simple apostrophes)? Or perhaps because those users are on a Macintosh computer? Anyw...

Yeah. Or is the new forum supposed to be invitation-only?

Barticle wrote:Phew! Finally got my password reset confirmed.

Did you have to ask twice?