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They play shogi, go, and riichi mahjong
by Cloudef 3y ago
They play shogi, go, and riichi mahjong
- Hamuko 3y agoIs riichi mahjong even that popular?
- ninjin 3y agoAt least in my circles it is common that people play or have played, especially males. I myself play on average two tables or so per day online. Although I certainly should force myself to read up a bit more on strategy.
- Kuraj 3y agoDaina Chiba's Riichi Book I is an excellent free resource for intermediate players.
- makeitdouble 3y agoI don't know for riichi mahjong, but "mahjong" is pretty popular, yes. But the betting aspect puts it probably closer to poker than chess or other games where money is rarely involved.
- offices 3y ago"mahjong" is riichi mahjong in Japan
- raincole 3y agoAbsolutely. According to [1], in Japan, 4.5M people play Mahjong (in Japan you can assume Mahjong means Riichi Mahjong), 5M people play Shogi, and only 1.5M play Go. Interestingly 21M (!) people play family games, which means party video games, e.g. Mario Kart. [1]: https://note.com/hasimo1000year/n/n06989a252aa2 https://note.com/hasimo1000year/n/n06989a252aa2, it's a random Mahjong player's blog, but it quotes the data allegedly from [2] [2]: https://www.jpc-net.jp/research/list/leisure.html https://www.jpc-net.jp/research/list/leisure.html
- RadixDLT 3y agoriichi is tnot the oritinal name, the japs use doupble (ii) in words to make them sound more western or latin
- astrobe_ 3y agoNot exactly. "riichi" comes from Mandarin, which might be related to "reach"[1] (can someone confirm?). It is an original word, although maybe a loan word, an the pronunciation might just have been kept faithful to the original because for all three languages (English, Chinese, Japanese) the length of vowels are sometimes meaningful (unlike e.g. in French). [1] https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%AB%8B%E7%9B%B4 https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%AB%8B%E7%9B%B4
- edanm 3y agoJust in case you don't know this, I'm fairly sure that "japs" is considered an offensive term.