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  Mahjong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mahjong culture is still deeply ingrained in the Chinese community: Sam Hui wrote Cantopop songs, using mahjong as their themes.
American Mahjong is a form of Mahjong standardized by the National Mah Jongg League and the American Mah-Jongg Association that has the greatest divergence from traditional Mahjong, with the introduction of Joker tiles, the Charleston, as well as melds of five or more tiles, and eschewing the Chow and the notion of a standard hand.
Rules governing discarding Joker tiles also exist: some variations permit the Joker tile to take on the identity of any tile, and others only permit the Joker tile to take on the identity of the previously discarded tile (or the absence of a tile, if it is the first discard).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahjong   (5019 words)

  
 Mahjong article - Mahjong Mahjong Solitaire Chinese pinyin Wade-Giles Cantonese 1920 Chinese - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Mahjong can be played either with a set of Mahjong tiles, or less commonly, a set of Mahjong playing cards.
Besides the fun of mahjong is to aim for the high scoring hands and a flat rate scoring practically ruin the game when the challenge is eliminated.
In contrast, the scoring system used in the Shanghai variant is high, due to the number of scoring combinations and inflated values for rarer hands such as the 13 Terminals.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Mahjong   (5447 words)

  
 Scoring in Mahjong - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Scoring in Mahjong, a gambling game for four players that originated in China, involves points, with a monetary value for points agreed upon by players.
A scoring limit may be more of a gambling incentive: for example, if six and nine points were scoring limits, a seven- or eight-point hand would be worth the same as a six-point hand, which may be an incentive for players to go for nine-point hands.
Scoring in the Chinese Classical system, from which the Babcock system is derived, is a "point-and-double" system, where actual score is collected, and doubled based on the number of points (or doubles) a hand earns (thus, the point translation function is an exponential one).
www.free-definition.com /Scoring-in-Mahjong.html   (4753 words)

  
 mahjong information site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Mahjong is a game that is generally played with a set of Mahjong tiles.
A player wins the round (胡, hu) by creating a standard mahjong hand (in Western Classical variants, this is known as creating a Mahjong, and the process of winning is called going Mahjong)which consists of a certain number of melds, four for 13-tile variations and five for 16-tile variations, and a pair.
This mahjong variant index site has been developed to help wayward users find the information they are looking for, no matter how they are mistakenly spelled or mistyped.
www.mistyped.info /mahjong.htm   (4234 words)

  
 Mahjong - Four Winds Rule Collection - Japanese Modern: Scoring
Note: In Japanese rules it is often required that the hand is complete right from the start (i.e., if a player declares a concealed Kong and gets the winning tile as a supplement, the hand would no longer qualify for a Heavenly Hand).
In games where the final score is specified using a settling table, the limit is used as a unit to specify the final scores.
In modern Japanese rules the Limit is 2,000 points, but the actual highest final score is specified by a settling table according to which a hand worth 13 han or more pays 400% of the Limit (meaning the Limit doubled twice), i.e.
www.4windsmj.com /kb/rules/japanese_modern/rules05.htm   (1469 words)

  
 Modern Japanese Mahjong
Modern Japanese is a modern pattern-based system, with quite a number of scoring patterns ("special hands"), many of them being worth more fans than the same pattern in Classical Mahjong.
All the "patterns" listed here are merely scoring 'bonuses'; except for the hands listed in 10.0 Irregular Hands, you need a Regular Hand with 4 sets and a pair, with a pattern which is worth at least 1 fan, to go out in the first place.
The hand is actually scored as 1 fan and 50 points (or 0 fans and 100 points, or 2 fans and 25 points), which is really slightly less than 2 fans.
hjem.get2net.dk /kibj/post/1997/9712-13.htm   (2218 words)

  
 Mahjong - InformationBlast
The Hong Kong scoring system, or the Cantonese scoring system, is one of the most popular scoring systems, as scoring tends to be low and the relation between points and actual score are very much separated.
Because zero-point hands are common, many players insist that a winning hand have some point value, often anywhere between one and five points, with three being the most common.
Some help with Japanese mahjong video games can be found at http://tokyo.cool.ne.jp/barfhappy/
www.informationblast.com /Mahjong.html   (4839 words)

  
 Dai-Mahjong - Reader Review - GameFAQs
Your aim is to accumulate as many “competition points”, not the points as for scoring in mahjong, as you can by the time you finish playing in all 16 countries.
Instead, you are given a “box” with 8 random mahjong tiles with a golden yellow foreground (normally, it’s white).
But, the dice is rolled again for that specific mahjong hand and you are given a different hand to start off with, which can be good or bad compared to what you had in the past.
www.gamefaqs.com /portable/gbadvance/review/R79130.html   (3063 words)

  
 majhong corrected for mahjong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Although you probably found this site by searching for majhong, it is probable that you were really looking for information on mahjong instead.
10 to 20% of all internet queries that contain variant spellings to the resources they were really looking for; in this case "mahjong" resources.
If you would like to add to the content of this site, or if you are interested in supporting the efforts of misytped.info by placing your product information on all of the variant mahjong pages, please contact mistype@gmail.com for details.
www.mistyped.info /majhong.htm   (4259 words)

  
 Is this an FAQ? "Modern Japanese" Mahjong
There are several "official" organizations with their official rules, but many people play with a fair amount of house rules.
The patterns used in Modern Japanese is a /small/ subset of the patterns used in New Style.
The logic suposedly is that the dragon is the heraldic symbol of the "central realm", China.
hjem.get2net.dk /kibj/post/1997/9712-05.htm   (5703 words)

  
 Mah Jong - Modern Japanese Rules, v1.54
These yaku are the ones my Japanese friends play with, and basically represent the commonly used Japanese rule set.
This terminology is what the Japanese use: most is in Japanese, but several Chinese pronunciations are still kept.
Wei-Hwa's site on Toudai-Shiki scoring, Scoring in Japanese Mah Jong [same site linked at top of doc] has an explanation on how the values in the table actually came to be (it involves powers of 2):
www.delfosse.com /mahjong.html   (3056 words)

  
 Mahjong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Thare are not one, but many variations of mahjong.
The following sequence is for setting up a standard Hong Kong (or Singapore) game.
American Mahjong may also have melds of higher numbers of identical tiles.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ma/Mahjong.htm   (4096 words)

  
 FAQ 4B: COMPREHENSIVE list of mah-jongg LINKS
A reminder: because every author describes the rules differently, it is not recommended that you spend a lot of time trying to reconcile one author's rules with another's (even when they are ostensibly defining the same "flavor" of mah-jongg!).
Rule changes have occurred since 1976, so I don't recommend using these old rules as one's authority.
Japanese site http://1kawaya.com/mjtop/mj/zoge/zoge.html offers genuine ivory mah jongg sets.
www.sloperama.com /mjfaq/mjfaq04.html   (2974 words)

  
 Mahjong Playing Cards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Now you can play Mahjong anytime, any place, anywhere!
This neat Japanese Mahjong Cards set comes complete with:
The cards come in a plastic tray which can be used as a convenient place to stack them during play and to store them when not in use.
www.hirohurl.net /mahjong/mjcards.html   (56 words)

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