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

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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.

(erm... the wait has 13 sides, the bookmark has two!)

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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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Entry tracking...

Torgo Merick Rosti b4k4ni04
chalwa Meeps Ref
York1jm
ghostdragon
Ignatius Shirl

[b4k4ni04]

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

tada!. here's to the same luck as last time XD;.

[Meeps]

Very nifty of you to do this!

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Thanks for your submissions. Bon chance.

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.

[b4k4ni04]

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.

[Ignatius]

Free books? Okay. I´ll choose . Good luck!

[Shirluban]

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



PS: It's "Bonne chance"

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[...]is offering books your hobby?

I'm just a naturally generous kinda guy.

PS: It's "Bonne chance"

Sorry!

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

[Torgo]

Wooo books!

for me.

[York1jm]

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

[Merick]

Wow nice 1! I'll Pick !

[Rosti]

Cool competition Barticle

[chalwa]

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Powodzenia!

(isn't Google great?)