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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| How many points does Mrs. Hudson have? (Easy ‘Sherlock problem’!) |
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| Written by Vitaly Novikov |
| Monday, 25 April 2011 04:05 |
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(The solution to Mrs. Hudson's Problem is published here. Please check also Adrie van Geffen's answers!) Remember: you can find all of Vitaly's contributions here. (In the Extra menu, please click 'Sherlock Holmes Mahjong Mysteries'.) So, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, inspector Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson are playing mahjong at Baker Street 221 B. At the table Mrs. Hudson has:
Last taken tile (from the wall -- added later, V.N.) is Question: How many points does Mrs. Hudson have (MC Rules)? |
| Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 May 2011 02:41 |
Last mystery ‘Mrs. Hudson's Problem’ turned out to be a real tough one to solve. Today we offer you a much easier mini-mystery of ‘paramahjong’. Please, try to solve it but ... don't push hard and have fun!
Comments (6) 
All tiles in MJ-set are don't have backs! And, when this deal are played, mrs. Hudson prepare dinner, so she was little scatterbrain. When start-hands are sorting, she accidentally rotate 3 tiles of "1 dots" faces to gentelments! But they used tile-holder sticks, so gentelments can't see this mistake - tiles almost fully hided by sticks! So, mrs. Hudson thinking it was a concealed pung of white dragons, because white dragon in this set looking as clear tile, no any figures.
Thru all game mrs. Hudson trying to collect "all types". It was a nice bonus, when she collected concealed mixed straigth. So, when she taked last tile from wall and it was WW, she count next fans^
1) mixed straigth - 8
2) all types - 6
3) fully conc. hand - 4
4) single wait - 1
5) dragon pung
6) last tile - 8
- Exuse me, mrs. Hudson! - saying Holmes. - It's very strange, but i have white dragons pung in my hand too. So, pls, remove points for all types and dragon pung. When mistake are discovered mrs. Hudson remove 8 pts and add 3 pts for tile-hog and terminals-pung.
but if she happily calls "Hu!" and presents her up-to-now concealed tiles it would be -60 by the rules, as she should pay a penalty of 20 to every other player for calling Hu with a dead hand (consisting of 15 tiles) - anyway being a beginner in a friendly game, I guess, Holmes will just blame himself, that he didn't notice the moment, when Mrs. Hudson got a "long hand" and declare the game void... ,-)