Re: Singaporean Mah jong and special tiles
From: NightMareGollum <gollum999@free.fr> [Gilbert]:
>
>I post this mail, because I recently bought a "silent Mah Jong" that came
>from Singapour.
>In it, I found 160 cards, and so, there are 16 tile cards I never saw
>before.
>There are 4 animal tiles (rooster, rat, cat and centipede) that I dentified
>on some sites to be other highest honours, 8 tiles that seem to be jokers
>(4 with the logo of the factory that ordered the game edition, and 4 with a
>facial mask) and 4 others I can't identify. They bear a chinese ideogramm
>that could be the Unicode x98DB.
>If somebody could identify them, that would permit to know what they are
and
>more, if someone has a Singaporean Mah Jong rule (in an European language,
>please), that would be the best !
>
>Furthermore, in a tile mah Jong, I found 4 tiles, not exactly identical,
>that are said to be white dragons in the rule that was delivered with the
>set. As it is only in that set that I found them, I think that it could be
>false. I can send scans of those 4 tiles if you want so you can try to
>identify them (it's something like 50 kB).
Hi Gilbert,
Have you checked the mah-jongg FAQs? In particular, see FAQ 7e (all about
"special tiles")...
Cheers,
Tom
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