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Japanese mahjong (Japanese: 麻雀, Hepburn: Mājan), also known as riichi mahjong (立直麻雀), is a variation of mahjong. While the basic rules to the game are retained, the variation features a unique set of rules such as riichi and the use of dora. The variant is one of a few styles where discarded tiles are ordered rather than placed in ...
Riichi deposits. The winner of a hand receives all 1,000-point riichi sticks that are present. In the case of multiple winners, the player closest to the discarding player (moving forward) receives all riichi deposits. If a hand ends in a draw, any riichi deposits carry over to the next game and are placed near the counters.
The World Riichi Championship (WRC) is a worldwide competition of Japanese Mahjong (also known as riichi) held every 3 years since 2014. The competition is nominally open to people of all ages, men and women alike.
Japanese Mahjong scoring rules are used for Japanese Mahjong, a game for four players common in Japan. The rules were organized in the Taishō to Shōwa period as the game became popular. [citation needed] The scoring system uses structural criteria as well as bonuses. Player start scores may be set to any value.
The first bound volume of the manga was published on September 5, 2008. In three days, the manga was sold out throughout the bookstores of Tokyo, and Takeshobo had to print additional shipments five days after the first publish date. [7] The manga also sold out on Amazon.co.jp, where the manga once placed among the top 3 on its daily sales ...
The manga and anime Saki revolves around a high school Mahjong club. Akagi and its prequel Ten deal with a college student who quickly becomes a prodigy of Mahjong, evolving within the Yakuza. Other manga with include Furiten-kun, The Legend of the Gambler: Tetsuya and The Legend of Koizumi.
Korean/Japanese three-player mahjong, played in east Asia is an amalgamation of Old Korean mahjong rules (which traditionally omitted the bamboo suit and did not allow melded chows and had a very simple scoring system) with some elements of Japanese rules including sacred discard (a player cannot rob a piece to win if he discarded it before ...
Mahjong Soul (Chinese: 雀魂麻将; pinyin: Què Hún Májiàng, Japanese: 雀魂, romanized: Jantama) is a browser-based online free-to-play version of tabletop game riichi mahjong created by Cat Food Studio and Yostar. It was released in June 2018 in China and in April 2019 in Japan and worldwide, also for Android and iOS devices.