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| - Una divertida parodia sobre la industria del circo de Hong Kong.
- Mahjong is a 2011 Slasher Horror Film written and directed by Steven Soderberg and starring Alyson Michalka, Adam G. Sevani, Brianne Davis, Alexis Jordan, Nicholas D' Agosto, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Lawrence and Gemma Arterton. It features a cameo appearence by Amanda Peet. It is part of the Original Slasher Guild Films which include Steve Miner's Cave, Steven Spielberg's Heart, Tim Burton's Color and Lasse Hallstrom's Farm.
- Mahjong was a game enjoyed by Major Daly. He offered to play mahjong with the Third Doctor and Jo Grant onboard the SS Bernice. (TV: Carnival of Monsters)
- ☆ The old table top game originating in China, well-played in Japan as well. The typical time-killing game of the Sanzo Ikkou, it seems they carry only the pieces with them as they travel. It would take a long time so I won’t explain the rules, but it’s one of the unavoidable items in the Saiyuki world – a match developed in the Kami-sama arc wherein the Ikkou ignored the readers; and in the Chin Yisou arc the pieces were used as mediums to control the Shikigami.
- Mahjong was a Rokugani game commonly played by four players. The game was played with a set of 136 tiles based on Rokugani characters and symbols. It was also used for divine the future.
- Mahjong is a video game for the Famicom that was released exclusively in Japan. It is based on the Japanese version of the Chinese board game known as Mahjong, which is commonly known as Reach Mahjong. The game allows for two players to play at once, which is two less than the normal Mahjong game. Interestingly, the game was included exclusively in the Japanese version of the GameCube game Animal Crossing. While Mahjong wasn't released elsewhere around the world (excluding Hong Kong, which featured an English manual), other future games that included Mahjong were released in America and Europe such as Clubhouse Games.
- Mahjong was based on a Chinese game. It involved tiles and its description was: Its description read: Rules chosen This version of the game is based on the original Chinese rules. The only differences are that the prevailing wind has been removed to allow just 1 round to be played at a time, and assigning each player a 'lucky' wind has been removed to allow any number of players from 2-6. Scoring Tiles are drawn until a player achieves "Mahjong" (4 sets and a pair). The winning players score is then worked out depending on their final hand. The points are allocated as follows: Definitions: Points:
- Mahjong (麻將) is arguably the quintessential East Asian gambling game, although it does not require money stakes. It originated in China during the last half of the 19th century, although the exact details of its creation are Shrouded in Myth. It also has numerous variants; common variants with major differences from the Chinese/Hong Kong variants are detailed in their own sections below. It is not to be confused (although it far too often is) with Shanghai (aka Mahjong Solitaire), which is a completely different one-player tile-matching game played with Mahjong tiles.
- For Americans, Mahjong invokes hours wasted on a solitaire computer game, where players mindlessly match tiles instead of more mindlessly filing invoices at their desk. For Japanese house wives, it is an ancient and mystical four player game designed to aid short skinny hairless Asians into gambling their money away in the most efficient manner possible. Thus the globe is divided.
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| - Una divertida parodia sobre la industria del circo de Hong Kong.
- Mahjong is a 2011 Slasher Horror Film written and directed by Steven Soderberg and starring Alyson Michalka, Adam G. Sevani, Brianne Davis, Alexis Jordan, Nicholas D' Agosto, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Lawrence and Gemma Arterton. It features a cameo appearence by Amanda Peet. It is part of the Original Slasher Guild Films which include Steve Miner's Cave, Steven Spielberg's Heart, Tim Burton's Color and Lasse Hallstrom's Farm.
- Mahjong was based on a Chinese game. It involved tiles and its description was: Its description read: Rules chosen This version of the game is based on the original Chinese rules. The only differences are that the prevailing wind has been removed to allow just 1 round to be played at a time, and assigning each player a 'lucky' wind has been removed to allow any number of players from 2-6. The tiles There are 3 suits of tiles: Circles, Bamboo and Charactors. Each suit has 4 of each tile numbered 1 to 9. There are also 4 tiles of each of the winds (north, south, east and west) and four tiles of each of the dragons (red, green and white) Objective of Mahjong The object of the game is to get triples (3 tiles the same 'Pong'), quadruples (4 tiles the same 'Kong'), or sequences of three in the same suit (e.g 234 of bamboo 'Chow'). When you have any 4 of the above and a pair in your hand (14 tiles) you have "mahjong" and have won the hand. How to play Players take in in turns to play. At the start of your turn a new tile will be drawn, and indicated by the flashing symbol. After a tile is drawn, you must click on a tile to discard (keeping 13 in your hand). You should aim to discard tiles such as to give yourself the possibility of drawing a tile on your next turn which results in the winning hand described above. Picking up discards After you have discarded the other players have the option to take your discard instead of drawing a tile at random. This retrieved discard must be the tile that completes a set (e.g. If you have a pair of Green Dragons you could declare "Pong" to take a discarded Green Dragon and make a triplet.) A set which is completed like this is placed on the table for other players to see, and is said to be 'melded' as opposed to a 'concealed' one which is constructed from tiles in the hand. This affects the scoring at the end of the game. Any player may call 'Pong', 'Kong' or 'Mahjong (winning hand)' from any other player. If you are the next to play you can also 'Chow'. If more than 1 player requests a discard then Mahjong beats Pong, and Pong beats Chow, otherwise the player who would be the next to play wins the claim. After the player that picked up the discard has discarded a tile, the next player draws and discards. Declaring Kong If you have 4 tiles the same in your hand you can declare kong. This places the set of 4 tiles on the table, and you draw a replacement tile to ensure you still have enough tiles to make a winning hand (called a 'supplement tile') Scoring Tiles are drawn until a player achieves "Mahjong" (4 sets and a pair). The winning players score is then worked out depending on their final hand. The points are allocated as follows: Definitions:
* A terminal is a 1 or 9 in any suit
* An honur is a dragon or win
* A simple is a tile which isn't a terminal or honour
* A melded set is one which is on the table
* A concealed set is one which is hidden in the hand Points:
* 20 for winning
* 32 for concealed four of terminals/honours
* 16 for concealed four of simples
* 16 for melded four of terminals/honours
* 8 for melded four of simples
* 8 for concealed triplet of terminals/honours
* 4 for concealed triplet of simples
* 4 for melded triplet of terminals/honours
* 2 for melded triplet of simples
* 2 points for a pair of dragons
* 2 points for winning with a tile drawn at random
* 2 points for winning with a 1 chance hand
* 10 pts for a totally concealed hand except the last tile. Once the points have been worked out they are doubled depending on certain combinations. Getting a few points and then lots of doubles is the way to make a high scoring hand! Doubles
* Double for kong of dragons.
* Double for triplet of dragons
* 2 doubles for 3 concealed triplets
* Double for 4 triples
* Double for 3 concealed tripletes
* Double for going out with last tile remaining
* Double for going out with last discarded tile
* Double for going out by robbing a kong
* Double for going out with a supplement tile
* Double for all of 1-9 of the same suit
* Double for only 20 points
* Double for all simples
* Double for terminal or honor in each set
* Double for one suit with honours
* 4 doubles for one suit only
* Double for little 3 dragons The following hands always get maximum points
* 4 concealed triplets
* Honors only
* 3 triplets of dragons
* 4 triplets of winds
* All terminals
* Going out on dealt hand
* Going out on dealers first discard
* Going out in first turn
- For Americans, Mahjong invokes hours wasted on a solitaire computer game, where players mindlessly match tiles instead of more mindlessly filing invoices at their desk. For Japanese house wives, it is an ancient and mystical four player game designed to aid short skinny hairless Asians into gambling their money away in the most efficient manner possible. Thus the globe is divided. The philosophy behind the game is usualy bi-polar as there are two different concept games and two different non-identical double meaning game conceptualisations. A more western platonic view would see them not as distinct non-entities and most certainly not entities of non-distinctiveness. Buddhist monks on the other hand would see them more as dual-related systematic dialectics or non-primary-detached organic singularities. The truth is, the differences are meaningless. It is the vicious oil black villainy caked into each tile that counts for everything. It's far more simple than haughty philosophy. It's just simple evil. Though as simple as it is, it is unwise to underestimate the terror of Mahjong when its threat to humanity is growing. Your children are not safe.
- Mahjong was a game enjoyed by Major Daly. He offered to play mahjong with the Third Doctor and Jo Grant onboard the SS Bernice. (TV: Carnival of Monsters)
- ☆ The old table top game originating in China, well-played in Japan as well. The typical time-killing game of the Sanzo Ikkou, it seems they carry only the pieces with them as they travel. It would take a long time so I won’t explain the rules, but it’s one of the unavoidable items in the Saiyuki world – a match developed in the Kami-sama arc wherein the Ikkou ignored the readers; and in the Chin Yisou arc the pieces were used as mediums to control the Shikigami.
- Mahjong is a video game for the Famicom that was released exclusively in Japan. It is based on the Japanese version of the Chinese board game known as Mahjong, which is commonly known as Reach Mahjong. The game allows for two players to play at once, which is two less than the normal Mahjong game. Interestingly, the game was included exclusively in the Japanese version of the GameCube game Animal Crossing. While Mahjong wasn't released elsewhere around the world (excluding Hong Kong, which featured an English manual), other future games that included Mahjong were released in America and Europe such as Clubhouse Games. On February 21, 1986, Mahojong was re-released on the Famicom Disk System by Nintendo. It's unknown what, if anything, was changed.
- Mahjong was a Rokugani game commonly played by four players. The game was played with a set of 136 tiles based on Rokugani characters and symbols. It was also used for divine the future.
- Mahjong (麻將) is arguably the quintessential East Asian gambling game, although it does not require money stakes. It originated in China during the last half of the 19th century, although the exact details of its creation are Shrouded in Myth. It also has numerous variants; common variants with major differences from the Chinese/Hong Kong variants are detailed in their own sections below. It is not to be confused (although it far too often is) with Shanghai (aka Mahjong Solitaire), which is a completely different one-player tile-matching game played with Mahjong tiles. Mahjong is generally played on a square table, with one player seated on each side, as in contract bridge. The game is played using rectangular tiles, with four identical tiles of each type in the set, and at least 34 different tiles, for a total of at least 136 tiles. (Note: Where possible, terminology will use the names most commonly seen in English-language editions of the game. The set of tiles contains three regular Suits, with individual tiles having a value from one to nine
* Characters (萬子/万子), sometimes called "cracks" or "craks", are classical Chinese numerals. Each tile has the specific value written on top (usually in blue), and the wán character for "ten thousand" or "countless" (signifying prosperity) on the bottom in red. Modern sets are commonly marked with Arabic numerals in addition to the Chinese ones. There are in fact three possible wán characters; the first two are 萬 and 万, and the third is 卍, no longer seen on Western sets for reasons which should be obvious.
* Sticks (索子), also called "bamboo" or "bams", use little bamboo rods to represent the number. Traditionally, the one of sticks has a picture of a sparrow perched on it.
* There are several bird variants for the 1, including cranes, peacocks, and even an owl.
* Stones (筒子), also called "balls", "dots" or "circles", use little circles to represent the number. As well as those, there are also the Honor tiles:
* Four Winds (風牌), East (東), South (南), West (西) and North (北)
* Three Dragons (三元牌), red (中), green (發), and white (白, represented by a dark bluish frame or a completely blank tile face). Occasionally, the dragon tiles are stylized dragons (with white being a dragon in silver ink, or a frame made up of two blue-outlined dragons).
* Eight optional Flower tiles (花牌), which consists of two sets:
* Four (actual) flower tiles: plum (梅), orchid (蘭), chrysanthemum (菊) and bamboo (竹).
* Four season tiles: spring (春), summer (夏), autumn (秋) and winter (冬). A game is divided into hands and rounds. Each round is assigned a direction, beginning with east and progressing through south, west, and north in that order. Each player is also assigned a direction, referred to as their seat. The East seat opens every hand; at the end of each hand, the seats rotate anticlockwise (so that East becomes North, South becomes East, etc) unless the hand was won by East or ended in a draw. A round ends when the East seat returns to the player who started as East. The game ends after four rounds have been played. Each player stacks one-quarter of the tiles in a wall in front of him, two tiles high and all facing down. Then, the dealer rolls the dice to determine which wall is broken and where, and the deal starts at the breaking point, for a result similar to cutting a deck of cards. Each player is dealt a hand that usually has 13 tiles. After the deal, play starts with the dealer. Each player, on his own turn, draws the next tile from the wall. If he does not have a complete hand, he discards one tile, and play continues with the player on his right. The object of the game is to be the first to make a complete hand consisting of a pair and four sets usually consisting of three tiles each. Possible sets are:
* Chow (corruption of 吃, chi), or chi (チー), also known as Sheung (上): Three tiles from one of the regular suits in numerical sequence (eg 4,5,6). Numbers do not wrap, meaning that 8,9,1 and 9,1,2 are not valid.
* Pong (碰), or pung, pon (ポン): Three identical tiles.
* Kong (槓), or gang, kan (カン): Four identical tiles. Since this is the only possible set with more than three tiles, a kong must be declared and set aside, and the player must draw an additional tile to replace the fourth tile. A kong is worth no more than a pong in most variants; its purpose is mostly to use up the extra tile to avoid having to discard a tile or make it available to another player. When a player discards a tile, another player may claim it to form a set if they already have two (for a shueng or pong) or three (for a kong) of the needed tiles in their hand. If a tile is claimed in this manner, play immediately jumps to the claimant. The set made by a discard must be set aside and revealed to the other players; the tiles in it may not be discarded. A tile may only be claimed for a sheung if it was discarded by the player on the claimant's left (unless it is the final tile needed to win). A tile discarded by anyone may be claimed for a pong or kong. If multiple players claim a discard tile, a player claiming it for a pong or kong is given priority over one claiming it for sheung, and one claiming it as the final tile for victory has priority over all others. The first player to form a complete hand, with four sets and a pair, wins the hand. If a flower is drawn, it is set aside and a new tile drawn. Flowers may be worth points at the end of a hand. Each one corresponds to a direction: East is 1, South is 2, West is 3, and North is 4. Because the Chinese words for "four" and "west" are both similar to the Chinese for "death" (observant players will have noticed that these two ideograms are very similar; one Chinese metaphor for death is "to return to the west"), superstitions have grown around this: 1.
* It's considered bad luck to end a Mahjong game during the West round. 2.
* In some rule sets, if all four players in succession discard a West Wind, the game is drawn.
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