Barticle wrote:The Han/Yaku thing has propagated to the USPML now

Propagated to the what now?
OK, found the site. Who is that?

Shirluban wrote: - Don\'t chi into your hand early on in the game There is many reasons for it: The MAIN reason why you shouldn\'t jump on the first chi is that when you do that, you are committing to a course of action that you probably won\'t be able to complete. If you make a chi, then you need ...

Barticle wrote:Do you have any plans for a second, Mr S?

Thanks for the kind words, Mr B. No immediate plans for another mahjong book.

1. I just ordered yours last week!) 2. I can safely say it\'s just an academic interest and I\'m happy sticking with modern Japanese. 1. Cool! 2. I totally understand. Although I am part of a regular American game (weekly), Japanese is my favorite. And I no longer hesitate to tell folks that when t...

1. the only three that are are HK, Riichi, and American; 2. the first two not being really open (Riichi is opening up but not in places you\'d call the heartland 1. Taiwanese and Wright-Patterson are also fairly widely played here, but I agree that Taiwanese would be less widely played than HKOS an...

At the end of each match you could just subtract the starting score (do you start with 1000 pts in American?) Don\'t even bother trying to understand American mah jongg. But to answer the question anyway: In a tournament, you start with 0 points. In a home game, if you use a "pie," you start with $...

Barticle wrote:No, it´s not a joke!
...Have you got one, Tom?! :silly:

Nope, not familiar with this.

Robert wrote:I meant, what is it called when the kan-dora indicator is exactly what is needed to make the tiles of the just-declared kan into dora tiles?

"Coinkidink"

Robert wrote:What\'s this called?
8-bam 8-bam 8-bam 8-bam

Dora yon (four dora).

I\'m new at this, but my way of explaining the difference between yaku and han is that all yaku is han but not all han is yaku. The subtle difference is lost on a cave man like me. Yaku is what you have in your hand. Han is what you will get on your scoresheet because of the yaku that you have in y...

I have a list at http://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/tables.htm

Also, what part of the world do you live in?

Gamegrunt wrote:No kuitan-nashi for the Sloper!

So desu ne...

* For 40+ Fu hands, only 4 Han are needed. For 70 Fu Hands, 3 Han are required. If there is a draw and a player only discarded honors/terminals of which none were claimed, it is known as a Nagashi Mangan. Please to be explaining what this means Nagashi Mangan is explained at http://www.sloperama.co...

We play Kuitan, and I\'m very happy with that.

I seem to have recently stopped getting those handy email alerts with new forum posts in threads to which I´m subcribed. No sign of anything in my deleted or junk email folders either. Any ideas...? :unsure: I set filters in my email to throw those away when I forget to turn subscribing off, so I n...