Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong book!

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Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong book!

Post by Barticle » Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:47 pm

Hello everyone,

To mark the release of my recent batch of mahjong guides I'm running another little competition.

Once again the prizes are mahjong books. First prize is Eleanor Noss Whitney's 1964 classic A Mah Jong Handbook with its 70-page section on strategy and extensive glossary of English and Japanese mahjong terminology. Second prize is Teach Yourself: Mahjong from 2001 by David Pritchard (ex-library stock so it comes with a plastic jacket and Dewey code on the spine!).

Not only that, but you also receive an exclusive, limited edition, hand-crafted, thirteen-sided Kokushi wait bookmark. 8)

(erm... the wait has 13 sides, the bookmark has two!) :lol:
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The rules are pretty simple and similar to last time. To enter the competition just login and reply to this thread picking one of the 34 unique mahjong tiles using the "smilies" on the right of the message compose screen.

I'll keep the competition open for a couple of weeks, after which time I will pick tiles at random from one of my sets until I get two matches - first match gets first prize, second gets second. To make it simpler this time I will keep drawing tiles until I get exact matches.

The competition is open to all forum members - old and new; regulars, irregulars and lurkers. Books will be mailed free of charge, worldwide.

Good luck! :)

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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Barticle » Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:48 pm

Entry tracking...

1-crak Torgo 3-crak Merick 5-crak Rosti 9-crak b4k4ni04
1-bam chalwa 3-bam Meeps 8-bam Ref
1-dot York1jm
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green-dra Ignatius red-dra Shirl
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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by b4k4ni04 » Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:53 pm

Chases down the old competition to choose the same tile. brb! aha!

9-crak tada!. here's to the same luck as last time XD;.
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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Meeps » Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:04 pm

3-bam


Very nifty of you to do this!

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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Barticle » Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:53 am

Thanks for your submissions. Bon chance. :)
b4k4ni04 wrote:here's to the same luck as last time XD;.
You might end up winning the same book with the same tile!

If you don't want/need two copies of Whitney (and if you win again!) let me know and I'll switch the two prizes.

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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by b4k4ni04 » Sun Oct 10, 2010 1:00 am

hunh, same book, different cover <_<;. yeaaah, I could probably give it to a friend if I got it, but oh man, I was epically confused about furiten for a while after reading that book. It's a great book, but you still need to remember it's a bit dated.
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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Ignatius » Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:26 am

Free books? Okay. I´ll choose green-dra. Good luck!
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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Shirluban » Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:01 pm

Thanks to ye, is
offering books your hobby?
Red dragon for me.

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PS: It's "Bonne chance" ;)
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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Barticle » Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:34 pm

Shirluban wrote:[...]is offering books your hobby?
I'm just a naturally generous kinda guy. :D
PS: It's "Bonne chance" ;)
:lol: Sorry! :oops:

In my defence, I chose German over French at high school. So, er... viel Glück!

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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Torgo » Sun Oct 10, 2010 6:08 pm

Wooo books!

1-crak for me.

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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by York1jm » Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:30 am

Sounds like a neat competition. I guess my choice will be the 1-dot

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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Merick » Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:00 pm

Wow nice 1! I'll Pick 3-crak !

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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Rosti » Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:13 pm

5-crak

Cool competition Barticle :D
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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by chalwa » Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:20 pm

1-bam

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Re: Return of the Super-Mega Competition - win a mahjong boo

Post by Barticle » Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:32 pm

Powodzenia!

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