Giant Italian Mahjong TilesUDINE, May, 10th - Players of the mahjong club at Udine, Italy, presented themselves with gigantic mahjong tiles during the 2012 Far East Film Festival. Playing with the extraordinatiy tiles was welcomed by lots of spectators.
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| Written by Alan Kwan |
| Monday, 12 October 2009 12:13 |
| I dislike MCR because it sells the potential depth of pattern-building mahjong very short. In a real pattern-building game (such as Zung Jung), you can win on any regular hand (instead of being limited to a much smaller subset), so you always have a lot of flexibility. But the winning hands do differ very much in value, and the player's judgement is called for to balance the risk against the gains. [...] |
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In MCR, you do have some "flexibility" when making a winning hand, but the values of different (allowed) winning hands are kind of flat (because of rivaling elements such as the basic points and self-draw inflation). So in the end there is little more depth than a uniform scoring game (you just play to win in the fastest and easiest way), except that the definition of an allowed winning hand gets a lot more complicated than the regular hand.
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