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Good Players Club 7th Grand Champion Cup

Today’s the day; it’s time for Good Player Club’s 7th Grand Champion Cup. We’ve mentioned last year’s iteration in this blog. Our long-time friend Benjamin Boas is participating as part of the mahjong-loving association Good Player’s Club, home to other famous players like Akagi’

jansou

Life as a parlor member (1)

A long time ago we explained what a mahjong parlor is. Today we start a new column where we’ll delve further into it and analyze those mysterious creatures that dwell inside them. No, not the customers, but the people that work to keep the act together. Parlor members. Me

tenhou

Tetsunaki no Kimecchi (Chapter 1)

Not theory, not news, just entertainment. Interesting calls from my last game. Going to divide them into a few different chapters. Toimen riichi. But I’ve two dora while 1 shanten here. 7m is too forgiving; three 2m are visible and four 1m are visible as well. I’ll let

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Judgment is important: small mistakes do matter

Let’s go back to the basics of riichi judgment. East 1, flat situation. You receive this hand. Do you riichi? If you’ve got your basics well learned, you should know the correct judgment is riichi. Looking at your own hand, pinfu and riichi is good enough and the

Free-to-use tile images!

I found some free time to make minimalistic tile images that are free to use and edit for any purpose you want! (Books, articles, websites, you name it) Here’s a preview: Set Full size tile Do as you please with them, just remember to mention me or this website

TOHAI Episode 1 (English Subs)

I’ve finally finished subing the first episode of manga-based mahjong live action dorama TOHAI. Never heard of it? From AnimeNewsNetwork: Gōki Maeda (Gakko ja Oshierarenai!) will star in the film as K, and Akane (of Girl(s) ACTRY) will play Amina, the illegal foreign girl he is looking after.

Mahjong News

A silly update post with news...

You might be aware of the leagues and tournaments we’re hosting, as well as what’s going on with mahjong internationally, but I I’m here to bring you the smaller updates that didn’t make the front page! Translated mahjong manga, subtitled mahjong dorama, Houou players, tenhou backgrounds

Happy 2015 from Osamuko.com

We want to wish you a happy new year. We’ve lots of ideas for blog posts in 2015, so hopefully at least 3 or 4 of them will materialize into an article once every few months. Stay tuned!

English Mahjong Stream

I’m streaming some of my games in Tenhou’s tokujou tables regularly. I won’t really speak much unless people ask specific questions or I’m singing. This is the link so you can follow my twitch channel: http://www.twitch.tv/x_kime/ Let’s see how far

10 League of Legends videos that can help to make you a better tenhou player

Hi, readers and web-lurking bots copypasting this post into sites other than osamuko.com right now. You may have noticed (or computed) my absence for the last couple of weeks. You know that old wives’ tale, “you should do things other than your main activity to become better at it?

jansou

Overview of Mahjong Parlors and Why You Can't Really Win

As this is a blog written in English, I think we can assume most people reading it probably don’t have access to mahjong parlors. Then again, this is a mahjong blog as well, so some people have. The point here is, is betting your money in a parlor a

Statistics

Real Life Mahjong Stat Analyzer [Python]

Lately, some of us at IRC (the ones who didn’t know a thing about programming to begin with! most fellows are actually quite profficient at it) have started studying some Codecademy tracks, learned about different programming languages, datatypes, yaddayaddayadda. What started off as a project of mine to build

rants

Blunt but honest mahjong discussion

It is not unusual that people ignorant to certain aspects of a topic will speak about them anyway. This is usually what an opinion is, and people feel a need to expose their opinions in public for different reasons. By extension, it is only natural they they will communicate such

Mahjong League

The secure league lobby is... secure!

For those of you wanting to avoid playing with undesirable people, there is a SECURE LOBBY for the league at this URL: http://tenhou.net/0/?C59295224 We can control who can and can’t play there. 7447 is not our lobby, it’s just a defacto English lobby. We

Mahjong League

kbk48... Our first cheater

It is not a musical group composed of 48 girls from Kabuki-chou; in fact, it is just one sad cheater with quite a few accounts. One player, kbk+ has been using alternate accounts to assist himself (in a stupidly obvious way) to win games at 7447. After losing a streak

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Mahjong Keypoints: How to become the strongest, 1

Last year I bought a bunch of Kindai Mahjong magazines and read through most of them. I skipped most of the manga and concentrated on the mahjong articles (yes, I am a bitter man, and you can sue me later). In one of my editions of Kindai Mahjong Original, Houou

tenhou

Merry Christmas

And may this never happen to you. Man, that is too fast… we are probably screwed. Well, good thing I kept that east! This will probably suck for the dealer, though… Wait, WHAT!? ….WTF? HUH…? … Furiten, too. What was that all about!? And well… the end result: My final score

tenhou

7447 strongest of all time

■L7447 Average Point Gain Ranking (50戦以上) 順位　　　通算得点　　平均得点　　対戦　１位/２位/３位/４位　平均順位　プレーヤ名 ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― １　　１９１８.０　　２３.９８　　８０　４３/１５/１２/１０　1.86　MyNodoka ２　　１０１９.０　　２０.３８　　５０　２３/１３/　６/　８　1.98　龍門渕透華様３　　１６７９.０　　１９.９９　　８４　３８/２１/１６/　９　1.95　無間の鐘４　　２６６２.０　　１８.８８　１４１　６２/３６/２５/１８　1.99　Zagato ５　　２４５３.０　　１８.８７　１３０　５３/４２/２０/１５　1.98　RB-Anon ６　　７７３１.０　　１７.５７　４４０　２２６/１０６/６４/４４　1.83　RB-anon ７　　　９７７.０　　１７.４５　　５６　２５/１５/　８/　８　1.98　Necrosis ８　　　８４８.０　　１６.９６　　５０　２２/　９/１７/　２　1.98　girlkoto ９　　　８４９.０　　１６.６５　　５１　２３/　９/１２/　７　2.06　Stouges １０　１０１１.０　　１６.５７　　６１　２５/１５/１６/　５　2.02　トフォ１１　８０６１.０　　１６.１５　４９９　１９８/１３４/１０２/６５　2.07　beato １２　１９４５.０　　１５.６９　１２４　５３/２７/２１/２３　2.

Facebook Group

For those of you unaware, there is a Facebook group for Osamuko/Mahjong. All you have to do is search “Osamuko’s Mahjong Group”, send a request and accept Osamu as your ultimate ruler. Even though I am the admin and who will have to get my butt over to

Europe

ヨーロッパのルールとその問題に関して

今日は日本に住んでる雀士のためにこの文章を日本語で書いてあげたいと思います。最後はくだらなくて浅い事だけど、後でもっと大変な問題も出てくるので、最後まで読んでください。 Top 10 Problems 2005年、ヨーロッパの「ＥＭＡ」（ヨーロッパ麻雀アソシエーション）と言う組合が活動を開始しました。基本的に大会やイベント作りなどはこの組合の目的です。その大会に参加したプレーヤーの成績も全部ＥＭＡのサイトで見ることが出来ます。ある意味、長期のリーグみたいなもんです。これ自体はすごいと思うのだが、採用されてるルールに色んな問題が発生いたします。その１．2005年に戻りましょう、ルール作り上げた時です。最近まで、役表には**「一翻役」（など）の代わりに「一役」**が書いてありました。同様に、三色は「二役」清一色は「６役」でした。何年も「それはミスじゃない」と言い続けて修正はされてなかったが、これが多くのプレーヤーに迷惑をかけた翻訳のミスだったので去年はやっと修正されたのです。だが、修正されたのはルールブックの一部だけなので、まだこの曖昧な「１役」の用語が別のところで未だ使われてます。今でも、役と翻の違いは分からないプレーヤーが多数居ます。（「ロン！メンタンピン！３役・・・何点だったっけ？」）その２

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Tenhou Secrets

Hi. xkime here. So, you have learned all yaku, played for a few years, you are very confident about your tile efficiency skills, and whenever you defend you rarely deal into anyone, but somehow you just cannot rank up at Tenhou. I hope that these little hints will help you.

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List of Mahjong Articles in English by xKime

Quick list of articles about mahjong (and theory!) I’ve written or translated and published online. You can’t complain about the lack of theory anymore! !Update! I've got a Mahjong Blog now where I'm posing new articles. Check it out too! NPMahjong What is a Professional Mahjong Player The

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Playing a good game, and losing

"I didn't deal in even once, and still got fourth." "The other three people totally sucked, but I ended up last." "I played a perfect game, and I still lost!" Yeah, hold it right there. I think you're overestimating yourself. Or at least, you're

Entertainment

Troll Girls

From time to time the denizens (or whatever you want to call us) of #Osamuko’s IRC channel begin playing games. Whether it is a loli text-based RPG, or a battle among Gods, there are plenty of sites that we frequent when we want to take a break from the

rants

麻雀が楽しいか、悔しいか

誰しもが、たぶん、麻雀をし始めたきっかけは「楽しいですから」のだろうか。がしかし、麻雀にとって悔しさを感じたものが少なくないのだろ。不幸。悲しみ。悩み。いろいろ悪い経験があったのではないか。お前にもな。それなりに、なぜ麻雀を今までやり続けているのだ？それは、麻雀ってやはり楽しいからでしょう。いくらなんでも「悔しい」、「勝てない」、「へたくそだ」を考えていても、やはり麻雀ができる感覚が、まさに最高なのではないか。しかも、へたでもたまには勝てる。たまには他人にその自分が経験したことある悔しさを感じさせる事ができると言う事実も。でも、みんな最後には笑っているはずだろ。一緒に打つ事ができた事も、感謝してるのだろう。他人がいるからこそ、麻雀ができるのだ。それは感謝しろ。大切な事なのだから。俺は世界でたった一人の雀士・・・いや、たった一人の人間になったら、麻雀最強になってるのは誰も否定出来無い事実となる。しかし、それも寂しいのだろう。麻雀で競い合えるからこそ楽しいのよ。俺はまだ楽しんでいたいのだけど、すっごく悔しさを感じる時もあるんだ。やはり、そう言う時にはやめるしかないのだろう。麻雀への悪い思い出が付いてしまうからです。俺は一生ただ楽しんでいたい。みんなと一緒に。皆、麻雀頑張ろうぜ。