Contrary to popular belief, you can play mahjong with only three people. All you have to do is take out one-fourth of the tiles out of the game. This can be approached two ways: part of a numbered suit (say 2-man through 8-man) and an extra random six tiles after the walls are built […]
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Played a few games on Tenhou today in the main lobby. First one was a bit of a survival fest in which someone declared riichi after their 6th draw consistently for the first 4 or 5 rounds. It was a bit unnerving at first until I broke his dealer streak with a cheap hand, and […]
Lately, the Gaku-Touhou scanlation staff (as well as acquaintances) have been getting into mahjong using the Japanese rule set using Tenhou, an online mahjong program. Among the usual players are Pilpsie, Trefle, Arsen, Wong, Jiu, Komachi, TranceHime, Smashy, and myself. Here’s a picture from one of the games:
After a while though, I decided to get […]
