No quite .. you missed the restriction. As Jenn said ... if you are holding 9 different terminals and honors Then on your turn you may declare it after you have drawn your FIRST tile providing nobody has called and melded a tile set (chi, pon, kong). The other players are allowed to pick and discard...

It\'s certainly a tactic often seen in contract bridge ... go for the lowest-risk minimum-success to ensure an overall win. I can see this happening a lot in social games and those tournaments operated in a first-past-the-post-win style like a tennis tournament. A tournament that runs on the basis o...

which you gave not to assert that Chinese mahjong ALWAYS uses 144 tiles I meant the standard set (yes there are a number of variants akin to dialects in languages which probably occurred due to certain house rules becoming very popular e.g. Szechuan Style Mahjong) compared to the differences betwee...

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No to brush up on my chinese to navigate :laugh:

thanks

Cool, I learned some new terms today!

Jen, Any chance of these being added to the RM Japanese Glossary?

I guess if your playing janki-ryu with 3 second discards then deliberately performing an hikkake reach could cheese some people off as they are having to consider their discards with very little lead time

Another thing: If even silent bluffing is considered impolite (which I\'m not sure we have a clear answer on yet), why is draw-switching considered OK? I find that far more \'unsportsmanlike\' if you want to call it that. Draw-switching (as shown towards the 1 minute mark in this video http://www.y...

Thinking about some of the moves discussed in this thread here are some of the odd habits I find myself performing. Maybe I am getting paranoid, .... but it is a very common practice in Bridge (contract/duplicate) to not only card count but pay attention to the exact position where the opponents dra...

And here is Sakurai Shouichi, one of the most famous players in Japan, showing a set-up techique Anybody still wondering if the development of automatic mahjong tables is laziness? :laugh: I must admit this is the fastest finger reading of the tiles I\'ve seen. Normally, it\'s impressive when you w...

When switching to MCR from Riichi I find that the transition is relatively seamless until I notice a situation which would be Furiten and then I have to concentrate a lot harder on the MCR game to keep the Riichi rules clear of my head allowing me to play. Of all the rules I miss the Furiten rule th...

Nice hand! I\'m assuming you didn\'t reach... the hand was not closed, right? Did you have a chance to Pon the West and go for a nice single wait Toi-Toi? How did the rest of the game play out? white-drawhite-drawhite-dra and :west:west self drawn The :west:west were the only west tiles remaining, ...

and a few turns later ... round South1 seat south. West comfortably ahead. dora indicator 3-bam 4-dot 4-dot 4-dot 2-bam 4-bam 6-bam 6-bam 6-bam 7-bam 7-bam :north :north :north I reached (desparately trying to close the gap between myself and player to my right) leaving me a inside wait (no 3-bam us...

I am wondering how many others have had similar experiences of, or formal terms for, discarding a tile...and then almost immediately wishing it back Just had a run earlier today of that, frequently frustrated, getting ready well in advance of the third row hand after hand ... only to be pipped at t...

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It still makes some odd translations with non-european languages particularly asian languages with symbols like kanji that may not translate 1-for-1