Mahjong Life and Living

Tied to my mahjong origin story , my decision to play Japanese mahjong has been the best decision on my life - so far.  As a person, I developed myself within the game and the people whom I had met.  As people, we all have our medium to grow ourselves.  I happened to do within this game. So, how did I grow in this game? Repetition Acceptance Learning Community Repetition With each and every hanchan, we happen to play the same game each and every time.  We play with the same tiles and the same rules - for the most part.  Again and again, we start a game; play through it; and finish it. With each and every hanchan, we are faced with situations based on the tiles themselves.  We have our hands, and we face our opponent hands.  From there, we're dependent on our tile draws, and the tiles in the dead wall.  As a hand plays, we make our choices on which tile to keep and discard.  Most of these, they are common decisions with not much thinking requi...

As Kyuu, I have been playing the Japanese version to mahjong and have been captivated by it.  The anime Saki had much to do with it; but the effects of that diminishes and is replaced by the sheer complexity of the game.  My entrance into the game came late in 2009. I had watched Saki, without any knowledge of the game.  Even now, I cannot remember my reason for even starting the series.  Eventually, an online buddy of mine came around and introduced me to the game.  He linked me to Saikyou no 3D Mahjong ; and the rest is history.  Later on he brought me to  Tenhou.net . With Saikyou no 3D Mahjong, I had to learn the most basic of rules.  Thankfully, I was already capable of reading hiragana and katakana.  In addition, I was already familiar reading the kanji to the numbers 1-9.  Yet, I once thought the 1-sou was a 10-sou tile for some reason.  On top of that, I did not understand the winds, nor their purpose to it.  T...