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Entertainment
Whoa, hold the pon! After keeping us waiting on pinzu and needles, the first episodes of Moku’s 4-koma are ready to riichi a wide audience! This is no 5-sou, it’s the truth! Read on for more! Episode 1: East Win [https://osamuko.com/content/images/2018/02/eastwin.
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Suji are a popular defense strategy; so popular, in fact, that suji traps are an effective anti-defense. We would like to increase the yomi level and create an anti-anti-defense by identifying when suji traps are likely. Are there situations in which suji are more dangerous? Are they really traps, or
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We’ve all been there: you’re dealt a hand with a lot of yaochuu tiles — ones, nines, and characters — and you find yourself asking, “Do I go for the stupid thing?” Despite being one of the most common yakuman, Kokushi Musou still boasts a wide arsenal of ways to
Mahjong News
Today’s market closed with cold beer down 100 pericas, and… oh right, MAHJONG news. Yea. In case you’re new here, this is one of those filler posts we make so people will think this blog is “active and frequently updated [http://mahjong.uwcs.co.uk/links.pl]“. w
Mahjong News
Woa, I intended to make this post ages ago. Unfortunately my computer broke and then I got lazy. But yeah, we do plan to continue this feature at somewhat regular intervals. And in case you’re wondering, this is exactly the kind of valueless content a previous post was criticizing.
tenhou
Here are some brief summaries of recent happenings and random curiosities that are related to Mahjong but never got a FULL INVESTIGATIVE REPORT by the osamuko editors. Feel free to conduct your own, though! Or just enjoy the silly pictures. Kan Keep With everyone busy making pon palaces and chii
Mahjong News
This blog might not have tons of updates, but that doesn’t mean the editors aren’t out keeping tabs on the Mahjong world. There are plenty of items that are of minor interest, but nobody feels the need to take the time to write an entire post about them.
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Well hello there. It seems that some strategy for defending against specific yaku is in order here! Today, I shall discuss some ways to fight back against THEM TOITOIS, as well as those “yakuhai + rage” hands people complain about. If you’ve been playing Mahjong for a while then you
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This is a public service post to increase awareness of one of the most exciting things you can add to your Mahjong game: Open Riichi. Open Riichi is a nonstandard or “local” yaku which means you won’t find too many places that allow it. There also isn’t a
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Hey, this is UmaiKeiki, a very lazy mahjong player — although I’m often in the company of some real addicts. They’ve scoured the internet for anything and everything related to Mahjong, and found some really outrageous ideas. Are the tiles given by Tenhou really random? Is a hanchan really
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Yo, this is UmaiKeiki once again. This post comes at the request of MOUIKKAI who wanted some kind of glossary of basic game terms so we can translate stuff. This probably came about because Osamu and Fukuchi-sensei [http://fukuchi.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/03/post-180d.html] read each other’s
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Hey, this is UmaiKeiki once again. I think it's cool when people who play mostly internet mahjong take time to learn how to score hands, even though the computer does it all automatically. Here are a few things that I learned during my own quest to figure out