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Mahjong related discussion and posting.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Mahjong
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Last posted on newsgroup: September 1, 2009 Most recent updates to the FAQS (since the September 1, 2008 posting): 1. FAQ 19AA - Edit for clarification. 2. FAQ 14 - Edit for clarification. 3. FAQ 9 - Minor edit to a link. 4. FAQ 7e - Added a link to a Wikipedia article on the use of jokers. Added a reader Q&A about Nintendo sets.... more »
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Winds Order Revisited2
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Continuing the winds order discussion concerning the reversed order for the seating of players (winds) around the table (see [link] ), I have come across the following. I may have mentioned bronze mirrors previously, but I found a new... more »
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Mah Jongg FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) updated
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Last posted on newsgroup: June 1, 2009 Most recent updates to the FAQS (since the June 1, 2008 posting): 1. FAQ 1 - It still said there were 30 variants so I updated it to 40. 2. FAQ 2B - Corrected a missing tidbit re Shenzhen style. Added Chinese Casino Style. 3. FAQ 4A - Updated the URL for Wright-Patterson OWC.... more »
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A Chinese Word for Ten-Thousand-Myriad?
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Lu Rong (1436-1494) described a deck of 38 cards consisting 4 suits. The English translation was published in the Playing-Card Vol. xxix Num 3. I noticed the Cash denominations in the top suit were extremely large. I understand that these large numbers were removed in the process of evolution. I have 2 questions.... more »
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Bamboo 筒 is called copper coin. Why?
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Has anyone considered the possibility that the symbols in Ma Diao and therefore mahjong were wrong? I mean what if the circular symbol was not money but something else different entirely? After all, it is written in a pictograph with a bamboo radical, 筒. 筒 sounds like tong and it means ‘tube’ or pipe, 管.... more »
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Looking for "Kan Hu" (看虎)
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The International Playing-Card Volume 31 Number5 has the English translation I read. I have some questions that need further clarification. I am looking for the Chinese text of "Kan Hu" 看虎, (Watching the Tiger) for a careful study of the game. Is it on the net? I would appreciate if someone could provide me a link to it.... more »
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What is "Ti" in Shui Huo Ti Pai?
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Who knows what “Ti” means? Shui Huo Ti Pai is the name of a card deck on page 36 shown in photo 39 in Illustrated Book of Mahjong Museum (Japan 1999). My question is “what does Shui Huo Ti Pai” mean? Pai is known as cards. Shui Huo in the book is given as 水 滸 (riverbank).There are about 150 Chinese characters have roughly the... more »
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