If given my druthers, I\'d prefer to play without money being involved. But when most people I play with insist on the money thing, well, that\'s the price of admission, so I pay it (and sometimes I don\'t have to pay).

Chinese Classical is the worst, as regards to scoring. Add up the points and apply doubles to the score of the winner. Then each non-winner scores his hand, and players pay one another based on whose is higher/lower/how much. No wonder the mah-jongg craze died in 1924... American is the worst, as re...

There are several criteria you need to use when deciding which variant to start with. Do you have other friends who play, or do you know where there are players you can join? If so, you need to learn the variant they play. Do you want simple rules? Do you want a gambling game? Do you want to play in...

I thought I posted a reply to this thread?
Or was it a similar one in a different \"room\"?

These articles might not help with those specific questions but might amuse:

http://www.sloperama.com/mahjongg/mjadv01.htm
http://www.sloperama.com/mahjongg/friendsJ.htm
http://www.sloperama.com/mahjongg/vega-e.htm
http://www.sloperama.com/WCMJ/shibuya.htm

Very interesting film. It\'s the first time I met with interpretation that circles symbolise shotgun bullets that were used to shoot sparrows The "talking heads" in that video are not aware of the ongoing discussions among non-Chinese mahjong scholars on the mahjong newsgroup, who\'ve done serious ...

One problem with that video: it says Mr. Noguchi (pres. of Takeshobo) has an 1861 diary that belonged to Harvey, and it discusses some things in the diary. I asked Mr. Noguchi, and he says he has no such diary. So the question is, where is this diary? Maybe in the museum in Ningbo... Next task is to...

HotelFSR wrote:I\'m curious to hear opinions.

Question back 2U. What do YOU think of them?

You can only click Command when there\'s an available command option. For instance, when you could kong or tsumo but for some reason the kong or tsumo option wasn\'t presented to you - or when you could riichi but you chose not to the last turn. If Command can\'t be clicked, the game won\'t let you ...

1. 私を今読んで頂けますか?
2. 私を今読んで頂けますか?
3. Can you read me now?

1: pasted-in Japanese
2. pasted-in unicode
3. Reg\'lar typin\'

Yeah, I already have 3 or 4 sites where I occasionally show up and find \"you have X unread messages\" - Sheesh! Just send\'em to me why doncha? (^_^) Then they wouldn\'t pile up like that.

Anyway, this forum is already tops on my list. Been waiting ever since YO went offline.

Oh please no! I dislike website-specific PMs. If you have PM on this site, my signature will have to request that people not use it. I have an email address. It\'s very easy to find. I check emails all the time. I don\'t want to have 20 different websites where I have to check PMs all the time. But ...