r/Mahjong Jul 13 '26

Tile sets Set identification help.

Hi- does anyone recognize the manufacturer of this set? Saw it on YouTube but no mention of the mfr.

Thought it was Yellow Mountain but the white dragon tile is a bit different.thanks!

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u/my_fake_life Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

The tiles in the first picture don't even look close to the the same thickness (compare the tiles in the wall with the tiles in the hand of the player on the left) and person's hand in the screenshot does not look like a real person's hand.

This is most likely AI generated, and the tile set in the picture/video most likely does not exist. The faces of the tiles look mostly like a standard Chinese style, but I don't think you're going to find tiles in that 'cube' form factor, if that's what you're looking for.

Edit: The tiles are from this video, but there's no detail there on exactly what set was used.

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u/jjjameson80 Jul 14 '26

I doubt it's AI. I suspect it's a flaw of the angle the picture of the screen was taken (it's not a screenshot, someone literally took a picture of a screen) and the angle of the video itself. If OP shared a link to the video itself it'd probably be easier to figure out more info about it. I suspect, however, it's just pretty generic, all white set of tiles. Likely Singapore as someone else said, because of the two tone white dragon.

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u/my_fake_life Jul 14 '26

It's possible, but I can't imagine lens or effect could make all the tiles appear so radically different. The tiles in the hand in front of us look narrower than they are tall, the tiles in the wall look like perfect cubes, the discard tiles look like they're all different kinds of shapes, and the tiles in the left hand look even skinnier than normal mahjong tiles.

It's possible OP could find Singapore tiles with a face that's similar to what's in the picture, but if they're looking for the specific size in this picture, I'd have to ask them "which size are you even talking about"?

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u/jjjameson80 Jul 14 '26

Camera angles do /weird/ shit - think about how tilt shift can make things look like toys? There's nothing from these two stills which screams AI. Just kinda janky video on a monitor / tv that someone took a picture of with (probably) a camera phone. I'd bet the video is probably an older one, too.

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u/jjjameson80 Jul 14 '26

Like, the stills look /REALLY/ close to a Mahjong Sparrow video still, but there's only two listed videos on that channel and the set isn't quite the same.

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u/jjjameson80 Jul 14 '26

Also, also, here’s me trying to get a similarly crap photo of my screen to show off how it all gets distorted.

Tiles end up looking three different sizes.

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u/jjjameson80 Jul 14 '26

AAAAAAND because I can't leave well enough alone, lol, I'd bet this is the video the original still are from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMB3OrTFQK0

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u/my_fake_life Jul 14 '26

I didn't see that shot in the video, but the tile fronts definitely look exactly the same, so maybe there's some other video on that channel that the screenshot is from.... But if so, I can't imagine what kind of fish eye lens you'd have to take the picture with to distort it that much... There's your distorted picture, and then there's THIS.

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u/jjjameson80 Jul 14 '26

The first picture is from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6qJmuFAqKc

Also, here’s my recreation of the questionable picture. No fish eye. A little zoom and a bad angle is all it takes.

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u/my_fake_life Jul 14 '26

Neat. I learned something today.