Tenhou should tell you about your furiten status *after* your discard once in tenpai. When not tenpai, it won't tell you that you burnt a wait. It might propose that you can chii or pon a tile but it will not propose an illegal win. As Gnom said, waits aren't furiten: the hand is. If one wait is bur...

Sarcastically speaking, it's easier to invent one or two more friends to play with than to make balanced rules for 3P.

There are many organizations claiming to promote "healthy mahjong", including the WMO. But I can guarantee you that even MCR players in Europe drink beer like it's water. Back to the main topic though, the whole reason autodealers exist was to put a stop to a lot of the cheating that was endemic to ...

I've seen Naki no Ryu along with a few of the Mukoubuchi OVAs and read some of Usagi: Yasei no Touhai. I have the 9 NNR Gaiden books, along with volumes 1-5 of the other two series. The stories told in these series actually has plot and intrigue. Akagi lacked the former, Saki lacked both. (Cue the e...

Screen captures are usually horrible but I do understand the magnitude of the effort that would be required to make a clean vector layout of every hand. They were fine, I'm just used to being yelled at when I include raster images that are not 300+ DPI at my previous job. It's not so much the use of...

Has anyone taken to task to actually review the books, or did we just assume that ink on paper was a valid reference? To be fair, I've only ever had my hands on RM's second book briefly at WRC. I have my comments on it, but they aren't researched enough to pose a judgment. The subject matter seemed ...

English consonants, Italian vowels. Thread solved. </sarcasm> Seriously though, if we're going to pick apart stresses and syllables, small bit of advice: Tanyao is 4 syllables. For language purists, it should be written "tan'yao" to avoid the nya confusion. I guess you can say the "yao" in one breat...

When it comes to Canada I don't know but you don't really mention requirements to join the "Canada Mahjong Association". The reason they only promote MCR might just be that they only have MCR players and if anyone was willing to join and promote riichi that would be fine. Of course that may not be ...

The reason why I mentioned that some "mahjong organizations" are by their very nature inept to manage riichi quotas is because there are nations that have organizations that do advocate only one mahjong ruleset. I'm not going to extrapolate on the Spanish situation, because I have one here right at ...

Also, I wanted this bit separate... Organizations who do not actively promote Riichi Mahjong should *NOT* be the arbiter of quota allocations for WRC. (EMA can do what it wants for its tournaments within its sphere of influence, I'm not disputing that.) While I enjoyed playing with Antonio from Spai...

Kyuu: Citizenship is often a rotten restriction, as we don't check papers when we welcome people into organizations, although it seems there is one exception out there... As well, any qualifying method using an anime con tournament would never be recognized. I told you that, and hope sincerely that ...

Hi, There has been discussion from time to time (and in various venues) regarding how Mahjong organizations view nationality, and how it impacts the ability and desire to participate in tournaments, from the following angles: being able to even apply being able to be a representative of X-nation (at...

Osamu reported that people from some specific countries could access the game. This might be rude for me saying this, and I absolutely don't trust another website to approve my comment... but this seems to be something that is defective by design. The Japanese model of managing rights often leads to...

http://saikouisen.com/rule.php Looking things up I had the wrong "Saikouisen." I was referring to the tournament of the same name which is actually run by Kindai Mahjong rather than the Saikouisen Pro Association as I had assumed. The tournament did use an Oka. Rules listed here (in Japanese): http...

Hey, I just wanted to post an update about the new game that the JPML organization helped put out, and advertised at the WRC in Paris, a few weeks ago. http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/mfc/mfcsp/p/?___REDIRECT=1 Now a contact of mine tried logging in and said that all he saw were Europeans on the server,...