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The value is not rounded up to the tens. Some rules say seven pairs has 50 fu and one han, especially in the Kansai region. As an exception, if one wins by claiming a discard with an open hand with melds and waits to which no fu is awarded, the hand is not 20 fu but counted as a total of 30 fu. This is the fu for an open pinfu.
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 ...
In most rules, the yaku only applies if no opponent called a discard from the player's discard pile. Certain rules allow the player to make open melds. [4] In most cases, the value of this hand is mangan. When determining points, the hand is regarded as winning by self-draw.
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 ...
Japanese and Korean mahjong have some special rules. A player cannot win by a discard if that player had already discarded that piece, where players' discards are kept in neat rows in front of them. Players may declare ready, meaning that they need one tile to win, cannot change their hand and win extra points if they win.
Residents of a Japanese city may have to endure being publicly named and shamed if they do not follow the rules around bin separation. Japan’s strict waste disposal regulations can sometimes ...
A Japanese court rules it's unconstitutional to require surgery for a change of gender on documents. MARI YAMAGUCHI. October 12, 2023 at 10:12 AM.
In the traditional Hong Kong scoring system or the Cantonese scoring system, scoring tends to be low due to the few criteria used. The general scoring modifiers apply (see above), with the point translation function being a piecewise function: a constant amount is given for scoreless hands, and the score is doubled for each point (that is, an exponential function).