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Gemma’s Journal #11 – Scoring Practice

May 21st, 2007
by Gemma

Hello again! Well finally lots of exercises for you to try out your new scoring skills. I decided to take pictures this time because I fancied getting up from my desk for a while. To be honest I haven’t yet worked out the points myself yet so I shall be doing it at the same time as you. I’ll post up my answers later this week and then Jenn and Garthe can publicly humiliate/encourage me!
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Tags: Gemma Collinge, Hands, mahjong, reach mahjong, Riichi, Scoring
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Gemma’s Journal #10 – Scoring Hand

Apr 30th, 2007
by Gemma

A note from Jenn: This entry was supposed to be up a few days ago, but while in Vegas I had some technical difficulties. I’m back in Tokyo again, quite possibly for good. Stay tuned for more on-time updates!
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Tags: Base Points, Fu, Gemma Collinge, Hand Points, Hands, mahjong, reach mahjong, Riichi, Scoring
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Gemma’s Journal #9 – Scoring Base Points

Apr 3rd, 2007
by Gemma

Here it is, the first part of the series of entries on scoring that I’ve been putting off writing! This will probably go quite slowly for those already acquainted with the art of scoring in Japanese Mahjong. As you know, though, my entries have always been aimed for beginners by a complete beginner. I’m expecting that I’ll make lots of mistakes over the next few weeks so I’ll be expecting you experienced ones out there to be correcting me and cheering all the newbies on!
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Tags: Base Points, Fu, Gemma Collinge, mahjong, reach mahjong, Riichi, Scoring
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Gemma’s Journal #7 – Missed Win Rule continued

Feb 24th, 2007
by Gemma

So I’ve been wondering what I should write about this week. Jenn suggested that I write about scoring, and I started trying to but then I realised I was still completely lost! It’s the thing I’m currently working on but there are still quite a few holes in my understanding of it all. To be honest there doesn’t seem to be much logic behind it at all! Well I shall persevere and you can expect an entry explaining the basics of scoring from me soon.
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Tags: Furiten, Gemma Collinge, mahjong, Missed Win, reach mahjong
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Gemma’s Journal #5 – Quad

Feb 2nd, 2007
by Gemma

Hey again everyone!

Thank you everyone for commenting on my last entry! That was fantastic! It’s great to have everyone discussing and sharing their views, especially for a beginner like myself – getting advice from you all is going to be great way for me to learn. I’m going to do something similar again for this one, so if you’re already more than familiar with the rules of Mahjong skip to the bottom!
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Tags: Gemma Collinge, mahjong, Quad, reach mahjong
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Gemma’s Journal #4 – Chow

Jan 21st, 2007
by Gemma

So last week was Pon/Bump. This week is Chow!

Chow is very similar to Pon/Bump although instead of groups this is for runs. There is one limitation to Chow when compared to Pon/Bump is that instead of being able to Chow off anyone else on the table you can only Chow off the player to your left.
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Tags: chow, Gemma Collinge, Hands, mahjong, reach mahjong
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