Score

Name	Score	Name	Score
Daniel Yu	29	Sheldon Ng	20
Tsz Hin Ng	12.5	Hoi-Ki Tse	22.5
Frances Hung	2	Emilee Lee	15
Tsz Shing Lau	9

New Policy (Continue)

We will have a gift for the member with the highest score at the end of this summer, so come to our activities and earn your score!

New Policy

In order to have more fun and encourage more member come to our activities. We will start keeping score for each of our members. When you come to our activity and participate in any games, you will receive 20 points. For those who come to learn new games or chesses, will receive 10 points. You also can win and lose points during games. For more detail about how to count your points, please contact our committees. We will also upload your score to here after each activity. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact our committees. Thank you.

Mahjong Lesson 3- 對對胡

對對胡 (3 fan)



Known in English as the triplets hand, this occurs when every meld in the winning hand is either a Pong or Kong. Variations allowing for Joker tiles will also permit melds of five or more, but disallow an all-Joker meld


There are more scoring rules come from:

Hong Kong Mahjong scoring rules

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Mahjong_scoring_rules

To be Continue....

Mahjong Lesson 2- "Chow"(上), "Pung"(碰)and "Kang" (槓)

A short and interactive tour to help you learn how to play mahjong

It is a demo for those who doesn't know how to play Mahjong. It takes only 15 minutes. Make sure you turn on your sound. Enjoy it!!!



Mahjong need to be play by 4 people in one table.Each player sit a side of a table which mean “East” , “North” , “West” and “South” . The first player who throws the dice will be the “East” . Mahjong game will be start will counter-clockwise, which continues by the second player which is “North”. But the tiles will be taking follows clockwise. Once the dices is throwing, player need to count the total number of the dices in order to start to take the tiles.Each player will need to take 3 times of 4 tiles with 12 tiles. After that, the first player needs to take 2 more tiles with jumping. What it mean by jumping, it means the first player need to take the first and third above tile, and then the second player will take one tile and following by third and forth player with taking one tile also.

The first player will have 14 tiles and the following players are 13 tiles. Why the first players have to take 14 tiles? This is because the first player will need to throw one of his/her unused tiles out on the table for the others player. Players can decide to “chow”(上) , “pung”(碰) and “kang”(槓) . But only the next player can “chow”(上) , the third and forth player can only “pung”(碰) and “kang”(槓) .

Below is the explanation of “chow”(上) , “pung”(碰) and “kang”(槓) :

“Chow”(上) : Consists of 3 tiles. Player need to use 2 of his/her tiles which need to be a sequence number of the tiles which throw by previous player and it must be in the same type.
“Pung”(碰) : Consist of 3 tiles. Player need to use 2 of his/her tiles which must be exact same type of tile.
“Kang”(槓) : Consist of 4 tiles. Player need to use 2 of his/her tiles which must be exact same type of tile.

Reference: http://www.chineseculture-history.blogspot.com/
http://www.mahjongtime.com/Mahjong-Game-Info.html?partnerId=36#

To be Continue...

Mahjong Lesson 1 (Mahjong Set)

Introduction
The History of Mahjong game can only be traced back to the latter part of 1890 in the area of Ning Po (China). As the game spread through China different regions adopted the game, each with its own unique set of rules. Shortly after the First World War, an America resident in Shanghai, Joseph Babcock, published the game manual together with the suggestion of the British engineer named Walker to add Arabic numbers to the tiles/mahjong to distinguish each tile and make the game easier to play.

Mahjong Set

Consist of 144 titles in total plus a wind indicator and 3 dice.

3 suits (108 titles)

Circles
Number 1 to 9 , 4 tiles each


Bamboos
Number 1 to 9 , 4 tiles each


Thousands
Number 1 to 9 , 4 tiles each

4 Winds (16 titles)

East (E), South (S), West (W), North (N), 4 tiles each


3 Dragons (12 titles)

Red (C), Green (F), White (P), 4 tiles each

4 seasons (4 titles)

Plum (1), Orchid (2),
Chrysanthemum (3), Bamboo (4) , (one tile each)

4 flowers (4 titles)

Spring (1), Summer (2),
Autumn (3), Winter (4), (one tile each)

The Wind Indicator plus 3 Dice


Reference: http://www.west-meet-east.com/mahjong.htm

Activity on 5/17 (Saturday)

Thanks for coming to our opening social!!! For those who came last time we hope that you love it and come to have fun with us on this week saturday again. For those who didn't come to our opening social, we hope that you can come this time and have fun with us!!

Date: 5/17 (Saturday)
Time: 7:30-10:30pm
Activity: Playing Mahjong and Chinese Chess
Location: Aloha Center 133 & 135

P.S If your friends are interested in joining us, please email us or contact Melanie Sio by Thursday (5/15/2008) 5pm.