A Personal Wiki http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:52:58 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/ http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/doku.php?id=games:riichi_mahjong:digital_vs_occult Digital vs Occult A hot tepid topic in (mostly Japanese pretty much everywhere now, goddammit) mahjong circles, it refers to two schools of thought regarding how a Mahjong game should be approached when it comes to odds of winning. Some people would like to pretend it's a bit more complicated than that, but the psychological application is pretty much the gist of it. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 29 May 2018 23:27:52 +0000 http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/doku.php?id=games:riichi_mahjong:suji Suji Suji is a type of defence employed by people who believe that everyone and their mothers riichi on a ryanmen wait. In a nutshell Consider the following: a ryanmen (open) wait will always accept both a number tile X and a number tile X+/-3. The furiten rule forbids any player on winning with a wait if he or she had discarded one or more tiles of said wait. Therefore, for example, a player waiting on a 1pin-4pin ryanmen wait cannot win with a 4pin if he had previously discarded a 1pin anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:32:53 +0000 http://www.xiongnu.org/wiki/doku.php?id=games:riichi_mahjong:tibetan_mahjong Tibetan Mahjong Tibetan Mahjong, or Mahjong Tibet Rules, is the name given not so much to a particular mahjong ruleset, but rather to a teaching methodology for Riichi Mahjong consisting of a gradual introduction to the mechanics that make up the bulk of the game. Thus, by ignoring the ritualistic aspects (such as wall-building, etc) and delaying the more subtle parts of the ruleset as much as possible, one is able to teach Riichi Mahjong to interested parties while avoiding both having to deal… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 03 Jan 2022 02:23:19 +0000