Hey all, Well I finally broke down and decided to get premium membership on ron2. Just had a thought, are any of you interested in basically having our own league on ron2? We would keep track of results on the Reach Mahjong forums. Or if not that just do weekly meetups for games? I know that normall...

Hey Guys, Well now that I have been back in China for a while I guess I should give everyone a little update on how going to the Mahjong Parlor went. Well I decided to only go to Shibuton, but I did go there twice. The staff and other players were very friendly and helpful. The first day I went I pl...

Hey Guys, Well while I was in Japan last month I picked Kindai Mahjong and started reading it. However does anyone know where I could order it and get it shipped to me in China and not have it cost me an arm and a leg? I was looking at Amazon Japan and shipping alone cost me like 2200 yen. Right now...

Yeah, its the ultimate trap! ;) They will NEVER see it coming. By the way, did anyone ever discard the last hatsu? Also you should have seen me play 雀龍門 the other day, along with many bad mistakes I made that day. During one game during my first 6 discards, 5 of them were absolutely terrible decisio...

Jen: Thanks for the reply. No need to apologize I know that you are very busy. I will probably check out both the of Jansous you mentioned, I looked at their websites and read over the rules, they seemed pretty standard. Although for Jan Q did you go to the one in nishinakajima or to the one in nipp...

Tom Sloper: That is a shame if I can't do a furii game, I really don't want to go there and just rent a table and play with friends. nameless: No, I have not tried to e-mail them, but they appear to be rather busy lately though. Also just seeing if anyone else has heard how it works. Thanks for the ...

I was planning on just going on my own, however I do have friends that would probably go too. I have studied Japanese now for 4 years, it is pretty good. Studied in Japan for 1 year, 2 years ago. Communicating as never been much of a problem. I use my Japanese with the Japanese students here in Chin...

Hey guys, Well I am planning to take a trip to Japan for a few weeks towards the end of January and I just had a few questions. Since, I plan on going to a jansou I wanted to make sure I understood exactly how it worked. Also I intend to go to a rate mahjong parlor, probably 0.5. I have been trying ...

The menzen tsumo, it is a closed kan of the haku.

With that form of your hand you should get both fan, 1 for the dragon tile and another for your mixed triple chow. As for the restriction, I am relativity sure these are the only two ways you can open that hand. However, I could be mistaken. But I am pretty sure that is the case with that hand. If I...

-Problem with the Pure double chow is that can never be opened, it must always be concealed or it does not count as a fan. -As for the first example you gave, if had just not opened the 1-crak 2-crak 3-crak , you would of been able to get the point. You opening the 4-bam 5-bam 6-bam and the 4-crak 5...

Sorry, forgot about your Riichi question. :D The reason you were not able to declare Riichi or Reach, is because your hand must be fully concealed in-order to declare Riichi. Your hand can have other fan in it or it cannot, that does not matter. So long as your hand is concealed and you are in tenpa...

I will try to help you out with this. The reason the game did not allow you to win is because you also had exposed the 1-crak 2-crak 3-crak . In order to have the triple mixed chow open, you can only open the parts of that hand of those chows. Therefore in your case, you can only open the 4-5-6 sequ...

No problem, glad it helped.

Okay, I will try to help you out on this one. The second item in the left box is your 性別(seibetsu) or your gender. this person is a female or 女性(jyosei) if it was male it would be 男性(dansei). Of the 4 boxs on the right, lets start with the two that you are not sure of. The first one 平均収支(heikin shuu...