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8 unusual facts about Mahjong


God of Gamblers

After convincingly defeating Tanaka in games of Mahjong and dice, Tanaka concedes defeat and asserts that Ko Chun "really is God".

Goodnight Gracie

Cam (Eric Stonestreet) meets a few residents of the retirement community and seeing that they have some common interests, he is spending time with them, talking about books and playing Mahjong.

Huating Town, Shanghai

The Mahjong house is also a tea house where locals socialize with each other on a daily basis.

Kaneto Shindo

According to his son Jiro, Shindo gave up his hobbies of Mahjong, Shogi, and baseball at the age of eighty to concentrate on film-making.

Kung Fu Mahjong

He decides to exploit this by teaching him how to play Mahjong, but Fei, Wong's boss, strongly objects.

Majiang

Mahjong (麻将), a game which is popular in east Asia, especially in Mainland China

Open European Mahjong Championship

The Open European Mahjong Championship (OEMC) is the oldest European competition of Mahjong organized by European Mahjong Association(EMA) under international rule.

After a few months later of the first world championship was held in Tokyo, 2002, Martin Rep, a Dutch Mahjong Player, decided to establish European organizations for Mahjong.


1st World Mahjong Championship 2007

This competition is the official first world championship in Mahjong after World Mahjong Organization was founded in 2006.

Carrie Ng

She won Best Actress at the 1993 Golden Horse Film Festival awards for her performance in Remains of a Woman and Best Supporting Actress at the 2000 Hong Kong Film Awards for The Kid. Other notable film credits include Edward Yang's Mahjong (1996) and cult classics Naked Killer (1992) and Sex and Zen (1991).

Corner the Con Man

Chen Weichen (Monica Chan) is Jiang Yiju's fiancee, wishing to put off marriage, Jiang has a long standing standing bet with Chen, that if she can beat him at mahjong she can name the day of their marriage, with the knowledge that with his skills at the game that it would be impossible for her to do so without him throwing the game.

Joseph Babcock

Joseph Park Babcock (1893–1949), American writer who popularized Mahjong in the U.S.

Mahjong school

After World War II the government has required such venues to obtain Mahjong/Tin Kau Licences with the constraint that such businesses must be known, in Legal English, as Mahjong Schools - a white lie to get around the ban on privately run gambling businesses.

Mahjong solitaire

Playing Mahjong solitaire optimally in the sense to maximize the probability of removing all tiles is PSPACE-complete, and the game gets NP-complete when peeking below tiles is allowed.

Mai Hatsune

In August, She participated the Final of 2002 World Mahjong Championship Women Players Japanese National Team Qualifying tournament in Kanda, Tokyo, but she lost.

Majiang

Guobiao Majiang, a rule of Mahjong founded by All-China Sports Federation

Papillon Rose

Subsequently an episode guide for the (non-existent) first series and manga was also made available, as well as a set of CD-ROMs containing a 2-minute animated promotional clip, eight tracks (six BGM and two vocal songs), system voice clips for computers, a Papillon Rose mahjong game, and two screen savers.

PSPACE-complete

Examples of games that are PSPACE-complete (when generalized so that they can be played on an n × n board) are the games hex and Reversi and the solitaire games Rush Hour, Mahjong, Atomix, and Sokoban.

Shisen

Shisen-Sho (四川省), a Japanese tile-based game similar to Mahjong solitaire

Yaku

Japanese Mahjong yaku, a specific combination of tiles that increases the value of the player's hand in Japanese Mahjong


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