Monthly Archive: May 2019

Challenging the Mahjong Saikyousen

Saikyousen is an oddity among major titles in Japan, namely because all games in the main tournament are a single hanchan. But of course, to get to that stage you must first qualify for spot in the main tournament, accounting for a mere 16 people from the thousands of participants.

Spellcraft Bringing New Way To Engage Mahjong

Spellcraft is a card game of gathering components in key combinations to cast spells and refining your ritual until it is complete. You do this by foraging for new ingredients (or poaching them from your rivals) and tossing out stuff you don’t need. I hope this draw and discard cycle sounds familiar; it certainly should.

Garthe Rants: Atamahane

(Cross Post) So I was recently overhearing some heart wrenching testimony how much “atama-hane” causes global warming and gives our children cancer.

Enter Sanma

To the Western collective, sanma has be one of the most divisive flavors of mahjong I have come across. Players either enjoy it or do some pretty counter-productive things to avoid playing.

China/US Trade War Is Coming to Your Club

If you are a club or mahjong player in the United States, hold on to your wallets. The latest round of trade tariffs imposed on goods and materials imported from China will add a...

EXCLUSIVE: ReachMahjong.com is back

Threatened many, many times but fallen flat just as many…finally, the ReachMahjong.com team of Jenn, Garthe, and Gemma have confirmed that they do indeed have a revamped site and are ready to launch this...

Playing the “Masters” in Japan

Titles—simultaneously the dream and the measuring stick for professional mahjong players. Without them, even with skill and years of experience in the league, you’re a nobody. But with them, even if you are a...

Twitch plays…

It was probably only a matter of time before mahjong got a crowdplayed mahjong game on Twitch. 0xreki was the first to the mark after a joke on another twitch stream took the unusual...

Mama Jong: The Long Night

Last night was a bloodbath for me at my last tournament. Dealer tsumo mangan, sambaiman and I threw into an obvious half flush. All I got was a Riichi nomi hand. I never even...