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Saturday, March 20, 2021

Singapore Style Mahjong Consensus Rules for Competition

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Big apologies to long-time readers of this blog! You may wonder why this blog has not been updated since 2015. Actually, I am still alive an...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Getting into Club Play

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For years now, I have been advocating competitive mahjong. Competitive mahjong is mahjong played for a goal (of winning a competition or tou...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

2014 Wrap-Up

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Yup, yet another year had flashed by. And my blog remains neglected, except for this once-a-year update. Nowadays, I spent a lot of time wor...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

2013 Wrap-Up and More Mahjong Clubs

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Yet another year has zoomed past. The last entry on this blog was on 31st December 2012. The next one is this, almost an entire year after...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

World Mahjong Championship 2012

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In October 2012, I and a few other Singaporeans participated in the World Mahjong Championship (WMC), held in Qianjiang, Chongqing, People...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

A Need for Standardisation of Rules for Mahjong Tournaments in Singapore

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I had started a series of articles on Singapore Style mahjong last year in an effort to document properly all the rules (well-known and obsc...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Relative Lack of Low-Value Scoring Elements in Singapore Style Mahjong?

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I have just received an interesting comment/question from ogiuemaniax, who writes: I am someone who primarily plays Japanese mahjong, but...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

MCR Club in Singapore

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I am happy to announce the formation of a mahjong club focusing on MCR play! This new club is actually an interest group hosted by Nee Soon...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Rules of Singapore Style Mahjong: List of Scoring Elements

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This is a list of the various scoring elements used in Singapore Style mahjong, organised by value (i.e. by number of doubles). 1 double/一...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Rules of Singapore Style Mahjong: Animals

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Animal Chinese name: 动物 dòngwù Value: 1 double Description: When a player wins a hand, every animal tile in his possession will score 1 ...

Rules of Singapore Style Mahjong: Flowers

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Seat Flower Chinese name(s): 正花 zhènghuā , 门花 ménhuā Value: 1 double Description: When a player wins a hand, every flower tile in his pos...
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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Rules of Singapore Style Mahjong: Scoring

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Scoring in mahjong is a crucial part of the flavours of the different regional variants. Since the gameplay (i.e. the mechanism of the game)...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Rules of Singapore Style Mahjong: Bonus Tiles

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In Singapore Style mahjong, two kinds of bonus tiles are used: flowers and animals. Flower tiles are the tiles that usually have illustrat...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Rules of Singapore Style Mahjong: Index

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This is the go-to page for all posts under the Rules of Singapore Style Mahjong, and will be updated/edited continuously until all of the pl...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Tournaments and Singapore Style Mahjong Rules

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I had become quite involved in Singapore Style mahjong in the past two years, despite my desire to focus on Mahjong Competition Rules. This ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Becoming a Better Technical Player, Part 2

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In the previous post ( Becoming a Better Technical Player, Part 1 ), I had listed what I think are qualities and skills that lead to better ...
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