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 Martin Rep |
| Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:43 |
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Dan travels a lot all over the world and since he is always looking for mahjong stuff, he sends me reports every now and then of remarkable findings. This time, however, he reports about what a friend of his found. This is what Dan wrote to me. "Hi again, Martin! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Mahjong Year in 2011! "And in the meantime a little mystery, as you can see in the attached picture which a friend of mine -- and she is a mahjong player too! -- photographed a few days ago in Saigon in Vietnam, in the former Presidential Palace (now the "Reunificiation Palace"): clearly mahjong tiles, but only nine for each player? And why is the wall in an "H" shape? Feel free to post it on the Mahjong News web site and see what your readers can say about it." So I gladly pass Dans question to the visitors of this website. If anyone thinks he or she knows the answer - or feels like discussing about it - please fill in the comment form below. I am just as curious as Dan Glimne! A nice pastime for the holiday season ;-) |
| Last Updated on Monday, 17 January 2011 22:54 |
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But Bert may be right. Probably someone who knows nothing about mahjong has made this strange H-wall.
I count 136 tiles in all (including the mismatched "player hands" and all the tiles in the wall), so it's likely a set of basic tiles with no flowers. As Bert suggests, the best possibility is that it's a display put up to represent a game, but made by someone who doesn't know the game -- or rearranged by a visitor sitting at the table. One shouldn't draw any conclusions about a "new unknown variant" from this photo.