Showing posts with label Mahjong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mahjong. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Mahjong

Today, I met up with some of my class mates from the YWCA to play a few rounds of Hong Kong style mahjong.

None of us had played since before Christmas so we were all a bit rusty.  Just glad that we weren't playing for money as I would have had very deep pockets by the afternoon.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Mahjong Advanced Level

OMG… on 23 October 2008 it was my first lesson of Mahjong at the advanced level and it is sooooooo much more complicated! During the beginners course we were playing what was called chicken hands. Here we were able to get a set of 3 suits of any kind and/or consecutive runs e.g. 1, 2, 3 or 3, 4, 5 of any suit and a pair of eyes. At the advanced level, however, there are no more chicken hands but we are playing chicken style… confused? Yep, so was I.

Need a lot more practice which is hard since no expats really play this style nearby so will have to wait until next week by which time I will have probably forgotten what I learnt tonight. As I’m a bit of a spring chicken though I think I like chicken hands better.