Mahjong

The Oriental Game of Four Winds. Introduced to the Common Room via Paul in 2010. It quickly became a phenomenal hit with many members, resulting in purchases of Mahjong sets/tables, a Tounament and becoming a common room past time.

There are many different styles of the game played world-wide, but the standard style played in the common room follows Riichi Mahjong, a Japanese style.

A type of Fortune Telling can be performed with Mahjong tiles by Shell and Paul (usually by the latter). Results are uncanny in accuracy.

Mahjong Tournaments
2011- Tournament Champion- John. Han-chan format (East and South rounds)

2013, February- Tournament Champions- Paul, John, Nik, and Trinh. Felix was a tournament favourite, but unfortunately removed from the top 4 due to Dan's last round performance. Thanks to experience and much planning, this tournament consisted only of East rounds and records have been meticulously kept. Full results are available on the Mad forum.

2013, July- Highly anticipated.

Common Room Mahjong Lore

 * Skill and Luck are essential components of playing them game, thus a member's own fortune will influence their style/gameplay.
 * During his beginner phase, Zach Shepards had (and still has) a strong attachment to Red Dragon tiles, and as a result has a high tendency to incorporate it into his hand. While many joke about his hand becoming predictable, too many have also fatally discarded a Red Dragon while playing with Zach.
 * OJ and Tizzy have an interesting dynamic- when the former declares riichi the later will interrupt the ippatsu only to deal into his hand. A similar dynamic has recently been discovered in the form of Dan dealing into Trinh's ippatsu- however it should be noted that this may be due to Dan's habit of discarding dangerous tiles in general.
 * L. is notorious for not opening her hand. She will call significant tiles if forced or if attempting to reach tempai.