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* Litchi Faye-Ling of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' needed a few more [[ChineseGirl Chinese]] touches--the panda, Taoist philosophy, love of green tea, the UsefulNotes/{{Qipao}} and yin-yang hair clip apparently weren't enough--so she was also conceived as an avid mahjong player. Several of her move names come directly from mahjong terms, with her [[LimitBreak super moves]] being named after high-value hands like "Thirteen Orphans" and "All Green".

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* Litchi Faye-Ling of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' needed a few more [[ChineseGirl [[AnimeChineseGirl Chinese]] touches--the panda, Taoist philosophy, love of green tea, the UsefulNotes/{{Qipao}} and yin-yang hair clip apparently weren't enough--so she was also conceived as an avid mahjong player. Several of her move names come directly from mahjong terms, with her [[LimitBreak super moves]] being named after high-value hands like "Thirteen Orphans" and "All Green".
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* NoobBridge: One thing that trips up new players of Riichi is that to win a hand, you must have one ''yaku'' (scoring condition). [[http://arcturus.su/wiki/Keishiki_tenpai Even if you have enough sets that you've reached tenpai, you still can't win if you don't have any yaku.]] This often confuses players who are playing mahjong through a video game, as many mahjong games will unhelpfully inform the player that they are in ''furiten'' (cannot claim a discard to win) even though they actually aren't, although some other mahjong video games will inform the player that they have a no-''yaku'' ''tenpai''. By far the most common way for this to happen is to make a bunch of sequences and triplets...except some of those sets (but not [[http://arcturus.su/wiki/Chanta all]]) have a terminal tile (1's and 9's) while others don't ("all simples", one of the easiest (and consequently, least valuable) ''yaku'' requires that your hand has no terminals, i.e. only 2's through 8's).

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* NoobBridge: One thing that trips up new players of Riichi is that to win a hand, you must have one ''yaku'' (scoring condition). [[http://arcturus.su/wiki/Keishiki_tenpai [[https://riichi.wiki/Keishiki_tenpai Even if you have enough sets that you've reached tenpai, you still can't win if you don't have any yaku.]] This often confuses players who are playing mahjong through a video game, as many mahjong games will unhelpfully inform the player that they are in ''furiten'' (cannot claim a discard to win) even though they actually aren't, although some other mahjong video games will inform the player that they have a no-''yaku'' ''tenpai''. By far the most common way for this to happen is to make a bunch of sequences and triplets...except some of those sets (but not [[http://arcturus.su/wiki/Chanta [[https://riichi.wiki/Chanta all]]) have a terminal tile (1's and 9's) while others don't ("all simples", one of the easiest (and consequently, least valuable) ''yaku'' requires that your hand has no terminals, i.e. only 2's through 8's).
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* The Literature/{{Discworld}} novel "Literature/InterestingTimes" has the similar-looking Shibi Yangcong-san (a mixture of Chinese and Japanese for "Cripple Mr. Onion", which idls the name of a card game analagous to poker previously seen in European pastiche countries).

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* The Literature/{{Discworld}} novel "Literature/InterestingTimes" has the similar-looking Shibi Yangcong-san (a mixture of Chinese and Japanese for "Cripple Mr. Onion", which idls is the name of a card game analagous analogous to poker previously seen in prior novels' European pastiche countries).

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::A recording of the song by the Memphis Five with Billy Jones is on [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOhtalqFMtk here.]]

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::A ::: A recording of the song by the Memphis Five with Billy Jones is on [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOhtalqFMtk here.]]]]
* Another song dating from the American fad period is "Mah-Jongg", written by Music/GeorgeGershwin and B.G. [=DeSylva=] and introduced in the 1924 edition of ''George White's Scandals''.
* Music/SamHui's 1981 song "The Legend of the Mahjong-Playing Heroes" (打雀英雄傳) is about middle-aged and elderly individuals gathering after work to play mahjong.



* Another song dating from the American fad period is "Mah-Jongg," written by Music/GeorgeGershwin and B.G. [=DeSylva=] and introduced in the 1924 edition of ''George White's Scandals''.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Po's father mentions that his great-grandfather won his noodle shop in a game of mahjong.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'', Po's father mentions that his great-grandfather won his noodle shop in a game of mahjong.
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* Seen a few times in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', and appears to be Uncle's favorite game.

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* Seen a few times in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', and appears to be Uncle's favorite game. In "Pleasure Cruise", he claims he was in 1955 the Hong Kong community center champion, but he loses many times to Tohru's mother, who states herself to be a quintuple all Kyoto finalist.
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* The MMORPG ''VideoGame/BillyVsSnakeman'' features fully playable mahjong, and winning games earn Mahjong Points that can be spent on various benefits. Certain allies can be recruited and/or leveled up by beating them in special matches with extra challenge rules (one ignores the Furiten rule, another conceals her discards, and the last can only be beaten with a very complicated, counter-intuitive hand).
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*** The 'Four Concealed Pon', or Suuankou, hand is a bit less common than Seven Twins, but contains much the same requirement: quite literally, pulling four triplets without calling a discard until the end. As with those others listed here, in most riichi variants it qualifies as a yakuman (maximum-scoring) hand.
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* The ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series has mahjong parlors where you can play against CPU opponents and potentially win lots of in-game cash. In some of the titles there's an online mahjong option available from the main menu, but unless you're matching with a friend right then and there, it's *typically* just going to turn out as an offline game anyway because the server population trends towards anemia.

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* The ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series has mahjong parlors where you can play against CPU opponents and potentially win lots of in-game cash. In some of the titles there's an online mahjong option available from the main menu, but unless you're matching with a friend right then and there, it's *typically* ''typically'' just going to turn out as an offline game anyway because the server population trends towards anemia.
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* The ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series has mahjong parlors where you can play against CPU opponents and potentially win lots of in-game cash.

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* The ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series has mahjong parlors where you can play against CPU opponents and potentially win lots of in-game cash. In some of the titles there's an online mahjong option available from the main menu, but unless you're matching with a friend right then and there, it's *typically* just going to turn out as an offline game anyway because the server population trends towards anemia.
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* ''Manga/GoodDayToYouHowAboutAGame'': A CuteGirlDoingCuteThings manga about mahjong, from the author of ''Manga/AnimeYell''.

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* ''Manga/GoodDayToYouHowAboutAGame'': A CuteGirlDoingCuteThings CuteGirlsDoingCuteThings manga about mahjong, from the author of ''Manga/AnimeYell''.''Manga/AnimaYell''.

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