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This is xKime [http:/arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/ranking.pl?name=xkime], aka Kimecchi [http:/arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/ranking.pl?name=%E3%81%8D%E3%82%81%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A1] . Just another online mahjong player/writer [http:/riichiblog.blogspot.com/] from the depths of Tenhou.net,
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UPDATE: Due to being busylazy, we haven't published the answers to the quiz until now. We apologize for the inconvenience to our dear readers. orz You can find the answers to the quiz now at the end of this article. Thanks to Ben for providing us with the
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After I started playing mahjong, I learned one thing very fast. It is great to be in the lead. It’s not just great. It is amazingly awesome. You are like a champion looking down on the rabble, watching them scrabble around for crumbs from your table, more often than
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After a certain tournament in Europe, I stayed behind and played a few games with some other people who also stayed behind. I asked them if they wanted to play with open tanyao, since I hadn’t had a chance to do so for the entire day (given that the
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These rules were written in Baba Hirokazu and Katayama Masayuki's book Bakatsuki Typhoon [http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/481240925X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=osamuko-22&linkCode=as2&camp=247&creative=1211&creativeASIN=481240925X] and are the
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I’ll come out and be a little honest here. When I started writing for Osamu’s blag I wanted to do something special, to make a difference. There is virtually zero English material on the internet, which is surprising in itself, especially as people are extolling their helpful communities
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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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Hello, Temeraire here. Recently, due to the advent of Saki, I’ve been getting very annoyed about how various people in 7447 use far more thinking time than is needed. As I’ve thought upon this subject, I realize that this is hardly limited to the newbies of /a/ and
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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