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Posted by Nicolae on June 22nd, 2008 under Card games, games
Tags: Card games, cards, deal, deck, hand, infractions, links, pack, playing cards, Rules •
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A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or game-specific.
The deck or pack
A card game is played with a deck (common in the US), or pack (common in the UK), of cards intended for that game. The deck consists of a fixed number of pieces of printed cardboard known as [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 21st, 2008 under Mahjong, games
Tags: abortive draws, Chow, draws, exposed Kong, Eye, Flower tiles, joker tiles, kan, knitted triplet, Kong, Mahjong, meld, melds, peng, pinyin, play, players, points, pon, Pong, pung, ready hands, rounds, scoring, turns, variations, winning, 上 shang, 吃 chi, 將 jiang, 槓/杠 pinyin gang, 碰 •
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View from a player going to discard a tile in an ongoing gameplay.
Players may read the name of the discarded tile out loud.
The flower tile on the left should be replaced by a tile from the dead wall promptly.
Each player is dealt either 13 tiles for 13-tile variations or 16 tiles [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 20th, 2008 under Mahjong, games
Tags: Bamboo suit, banker, board, bone tiles, Character suit, Charleston, chips, Circle suit, computer, dealer, dealing, dice, Dragon tiles, equipment, Flower tiles, Game Wind, kards, Mahjong, Mhing, players, playing cards, Prevailing Wind, setting up, tiles, wall, Wind, Wind tiles •
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Basic equipment: chips, tiles and dice.
Mahjong houses provide a convenient venue for Mahjong old hands. This is a typical scene of Mahjong house in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Mahjong, can be played either with a set of Mahjong tiles, or less commonly, a set of Mahjong playing cards (sometimes spelled ‘kards’ to [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 19th, 2008 under Mahjong, Rules, games
Tags: China State Sports Commission, Chinese Official rules, critics, Events, international rules, International Tournament rules, Mahjong, Open European Mahjong Championship, players, rulebook, Rules, Tournaments, variants, World Championship •
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In 1998 the China State Sports Commission, in the interest of changing mahjong from an illegal gambling game to an approved ‘healthy sport’, published a new set of rules, now generally referred to as Chinese Official rules or International Tournament rules. The principles of the new, ‘healthy’ mahjong are: no gambling – [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 18th, 2008 under Mahjong, games
Tags: American Mah-Jongg Association, American Mahjong, Cantonese Mahjong, Chinese Classical Mahjong, Filipino Mahjong, Fujian Mahjong, Hong Kong Mahjong, Japanese Mahjong, Mahjong, National Mah Jongg League, Taiwanese Mahjong, variants, Vietnamese Mahjong, Western Classical Mahjong •
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Beijing residents playing Mahjong in public.
Four Filipino women playing Filipino Mahjong.
There are many variations of mahjong. In many places, players observe one version, and are either often unaware of other variations, or claim that other variations are incorrect. Although many variations today differ only by scoring, there are several main [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 17th, 2008 under Mahjong, games
Tags: card, Chee and Kong, China, Chinese, Confucius, development, domino, games, historians, History, Mahjong, playcards, Pong, Stewart Culin, western world •
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Mahjong in China
Different kinds of Chinese playcards (from left to right): Bógŭ Yèzí (博古葉子), Caozhou Paí (曹州牌), Three Kingdoms Yèzí (三國葉子), Dongguan Paí (東莞牌).
One of the myths (probably originating in the West) regarding the origin of Mahjong suggests that Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, had developed the game about 500 BC. [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 16th, 2008 under Mahjong, games
Tags: bulletin boards, China, games, links, mah-jong, mah-jongg, Màhjeuk, Màhjeung; 麻雀; Máquè, Mahjong, mahjongg, Májiàng, organizations, players, print matter, references, Rules, skills, strategy, websites, 麻将, 麻將 •
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Mahjong
Players
4
Age range
> Any
Setup time
2-5 minutes
Playing time
0-3 hours
Rules complexity
High
Strategy depth
Medium
Random chance
Yes
Skills required
Tactics, observation, memory
Mahjong (Traditional Chinese: 麻將; Simplified Chinese: 麻将; pinyin: Májiàng; Cantonese: Màhjeung; or Chinese: 麻雀; pinyin: Máquè; Cantonese: Màhjeuk; other common English spellings include mahjongg, majiang, and hyphenated forms such as mah-jong or mah-jongg) is a game for four [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 15th, 2008 under "Beatable" casino games Guide, Sports Betting
Tags: bowling, chess, class, factors, form, games, Go, golf, handicap, handicapping, Handicaps, horse racing, links, notes, Outcome of Races, pace, polo, practice, predicting, references, speed, Sport, Trip Handicapping, yacht racing •
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Handicapping, in sport and games, is the practice of assigning advantage through scoring compensation or other advantage given to different contestants to equalize the chances of winning. The word also applies to the various methods by which the advantage is calculated. In principle, a more experienced player is disadvantaged in order [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 14th, 2008 under "Beatable" casino games Guide, Sport, Sports Betting
Tags: Australia, chariot races, equestrian, Europe, forms, horse racing, North America, pedigree, Sport, thoroughbred racing •
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A horse race at Del Mar.
Horse racing is an equestrian sport which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. It is often inextricably associated [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 13th, 2008 under Gaming Guide
Tags: beat the bookie, dicey, due-column betting, even money, fixed profits, fixed stakes, hazard, I bet that, kelly, martingale, Monte Carlo method, staking systems •
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Many people have formulated staking systems in an attempt to “beat the bookie” but most still accept that no staking system can make an unprofitable system profitable over time. Widely-used systems include:
Fixed stakes – a traditional system of staking the same amount on each selection. This method suits conservative punters if the [...]