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by Barticle
Wed Dec 25, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Exist any community in spain about mahjong?
Replies: 2
Views: 2150

Re: Exist any community in spain about mahjong?

Hi and welcome. This map is useful - it gives clubs in countries around the world, including four in Spain. https://jellicodemahjong.wordpress.com/world-riichi-map/ The Spanish mahjong federation lists some others too. https://femj.es/clubes.php I found this 2024 post about a group in the València a...
by Barticle
Sun Dec 01, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: Mahjong Media
Topic: Mahjong at the movies?
Replies: 173
Views: 439204

Re: Mahjong at the movies?

The Dōjima family has one too in the new Like a Dragon: Yakuza video-game spin-off TV series. (2024)
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by Barticle
Sun Nov 17, 2024 8:06 pm
Forum: Mahjong Media
Topic: Mahjong at the movies?
Replies: 173
Views: 439204

Re: Mahjong at the movies?

The yakuza still have their mahjong table - in the second (and final) season of Tokyo Vice. (2024)
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Tokyo Noir, the follow-up to Jake's 2010 Tokyo Vice book, was published earlier this year.
by Barticle
Fri Oct 04, 2024 7:14 pm
Forum: Reach Mahjong
Topic: My hand of the week
Replies: 35
Views: 68521

Re: My hand of the week

A Craks half-flush with double east and Dora honours seems to be your theme for this year. :) I do like Honitsu but it's so rarely this valuable. Counted Yakuman is quite uncommon, especially without red fives to add Han. Yet my first ever Yakuman in a video-game was Kazoe Yakuman. (with two quad se...
by Barticle
Sat Jul 27, 2024 5:16 pm
Forum: reachmahjong.com
Topic: Sign on the wall says it all
Replies: 1
Views: 10074

Re: Sign on the wall says it all

So sometimes it's about how you don't play the game!

Well done for maintaining a play group and having the sportsmanship to sit out and assist.

The motto is a worthy attitude, but don't let it blunt your killer instinct to push for a win. :)
by Barticle
Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: WWYD
Topic: WWYD Riichi Book I edition
Replies: 1
Views: 9948

Re: WWYD Riichi Book I edition

Certainly a 3445 shape progressed by any of 2/3/5/6 is exactly the example Daina gives for the efficiency of that shape during hand development (Section 3.3). Here that'd support Pinfu, potentially adding Tanyao (if you don't draw on the wrong side of the 23 Bams) plus the red five in the 55 pair. D...
by Barticle
Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:09 pm
Forum: Mahjong Media
Topic: Mahjong at the movies?
Replies: 173
Views: 439204

Re: Mahjong at the movies?

If you want the latest gossip, you go to the ladies' mahjong club - in new Netflix series The Brothers Sun (2024).
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The club appears several times and Michelle Yeoh's character mentions mahjong another couple of times too.
by Barticle
Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Reach Mahjong
Topic: A new website with Riichi and Chinese gameplay
Replies: 5
Views: 14749

Re: A new website with Riichi and Chinese gameplay

One time I went Fruiten when I was going for Seven Pears. :wink:
by Barticle
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:24 pm
Forum: Mahjong Media
Topic: another mahjong book
Replies: 24
Views: 46084

Re: another mahjong book

I have to post a quick review/warning about a recent acquisition for my collection. Oh boy. 'How to Play Mah Jongg for Beginners' by "Andrew L. Grayson" is a slim volume from 2023 "printed in Great Britain by Amazon". avoidavoidavoid.JPG It's frankly bizarre. The 64 pages are (mostly) double-spaced ...
by Barticle
Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Reach Mahjong
Topic: My hand of the week
Replies: 35
Views: 68521

Re: My hand of the week

Congrats. This was an auspicious victory with the Year of the Dragon just three weeks away. :)
by Barticle
Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:34 am
Forum: Reach Mahjong
Topic: Simple Three Player Mahjong
Replies: 8
Views: 13132

Re: Simple Three Player Mahjong

There's another rules decision for you - either build a dead wall of nine stacks (with the initial Dora indicator neatly situated in the central stack) or have the usual seven stacks and just rely on replenishing the dead wall from the back end of the live wall after each kong draw (after two kongs ...
by Barticle
Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:54 pm
Forum: Reach Mahjong
Topic: Yakuman and riichi
Replies: 1
Views: 5518

Re: Yakuman and riichi

I don't remember seeing any stats on this specifically and I only have a little to add. Depending on their situations, declaring Riichi can make opponents switch to some degree of defensive play (as you said). If they run out of their safest tiles or they're still also trying to build their own hand...
by Barticle
Thu Jan 04, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Happiness in a New Year
Replies: 7
Views: 19678

Re: Happiness in a New Year

Yes, Happy New Year to anyone who sees this. I'm still dabbling in mahjong video-games occasionally and checking in on this forum. The Chinese new year (10 Feb) will be the Year of the Dragon! red-dra red-dra red-dra white-dra white-dra white-dra green-dra green-dra green-dra :east :east :east :west...
by Barticle
Sat Dec 30, 2023 12:23 pm
Forum: Reach Mahjong
Topic: Simple Three Player Mahjong
Replies: 8
Views: 13132

Re: Simple Three Player Mahjong

Yes - just declared, removed and replaced, then scored as a bonus. However, unlike flowers, you can also use north tiles as part of your hand instead. (With a higher proportion of terminals and honours in play, it would be a shame not to be able to make Kokushi!) You can flip the fifth tile instead ...
by Barticle
Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:56 pm
Forum: Reach Mahjong
Topic: Simple Three Player Mahjong
Replies: 8
Views: 13132

Re: Simple Three Player Mahjong

Hi Mauro. Certainly these simple rules seem to be missing some crucial details; perhaps the implication is that a basic version of mahjong (for beginners) could omit some normal rules like Honba points and Noten Bappu (otherwise 2000 pts seems sensible for that). With the 2-8 Craks removed, the 108 ...