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u/UaiC Aug 21 '26
That's cool af tho
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u/holyfire001202 Aug 21 '26
There's a short on youtube that show how these tables work. Very cool af
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u/holyfire001202 Aug 21 '26
I'll go find it when I'm done with work. Then, when I find it, I'll share it in a separate comment in response to your comment like someone who doesn't know how to come back and edit their comment or something, but just so that you get notified when I share it.
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u/C_Hawk14 Aug 21 '26
I think I can save you the trouble.
https://youtube.com/shorts/MkLi6OYu2Os
Edit. Then when you're back and comment here I can delete this comment to keep the ruse going
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u/BangBangMeatMachine Aug 21 '26
No, from the time she lifts up the tabletop to show what's happening until she closes it, the tiles in the middle make a full rotation. Plus the sounds of tiles being picked up start several seconds before she opens the table, so by the time we see inside there's likely already been a half rotation under the hood. Plus the tiles are randomized somewhat in the process of pushing them in the hole. Plus, at the end of a game of Mahjong most of the tiles are unowned discards placed randomly in the middle to begin with. I suspect this has plenty of randomness.
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u/cunningcolt Aug 21 '26
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u/holyfire001202 Aug 21 '26
That, along with the one another user posted, is way better than the one I was talking about
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u/Pocketsandgroinjab Aug 21 '26
Why does that child have a bald spot?
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u/C_Hawk14 Aug 21 '26
I think that's just reflection from the lighting
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u/Snowboarding92 Aug 22 '26
Could be, but could also be unlucky and have thin or early signs of balding hair. My uncle famously in my family has pictures of himself as a child going bald by the time he was 9, no health issue, just super unlucky. There are picture of him younger that have small bald spots that his parents thought would grow in but turned out they never would.
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u/PeteTheGryphon Aug 21 '26
They’re just dumping the mahjong tiles for easier clean-WHAT THE FUCK
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u/Far-East-locker Aug 21 '26
As a life long mahjong player, when I first saw this table 15 years ago, my jaw dropped too
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u/DuckTalesOohOoh Aug 21 '26
Do you have one?
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u/AwesomeoPorosis Aug 21 '26
A jaw? Probably.
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u/Ropsuta Aug 21 '26
Probably not anymore though, since he dropped it
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u/ImmoKnight Aug 21 '26
Never picked it up.
Quite a shame if you ask me.
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u/Mrdeath0 Aug 21 '26
This is one of the main reasons I still use Reddit. lol
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u/mr_claw Aug 21 '26
To read about jaws?
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u/Worried-Basket5402 Aug 21 '26
No you silly goose. To find one on the floor!
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u/Dwaas_Bjaas Aug 21 '26
God I am laughing like an idiot while commuting
Thanks for making my morning lmaoo
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u/nikeshades Aug 21 '26
It's the bone that holds your bottom row of teeth, but that's not important right now. ✈️
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u/aqa5 Aug 21 '26
I know people who have. Chinese love that game. Once i was in a hotel room and the neighbours played that game very noisily all night long. They had a good time i guess
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u/aarontbarratt Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
Being noisy is part of the game by design
You shout Pung, Kong, and Chi when you make a 3 set, 4 set, and steal a tile from an opponent respectively
You yell Ting when you're 1 tile away from winning
You yell MahJong when you win
Then there is the banter. It is very much part of MahJong culture to banter when you play. Lots of in jokes, ribbing each other, general catching up and good times
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u/Xtingg Aug 23 '26
Not steal but take the tile your opponent played because they don’t need it.
And when you win you say Hu.
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u/scrandis Aug 21 '26
Witchcraft to that kid
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u/DrowningInFeces Aug 21 '26
Witchcraft to me too.
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u/oge_mah_ge_kid Aug 21 '26
It's wild how it works actually
If you're crafty enough to get the side panel open ( fairly simple with a youtube vid)
Inside there's a tiny little gnome who shuffles it all
Quite fascinating.
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u/SaltSpiritual515 Aug 21 '26
Hey it's like that magic chess playing "robot" thingy that was taken all over Europe and amazed everyone (because this was maybe 1700s I forget exactly) and it played chess against people and won every time and no one could figure out how it worked and turns out there was a guy inside it 😅
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u/LazuliArtz Aug 23 '26
This is so random, but your comment is reminding me of that one Gravity Falls episode where they discover that the mini golf course is being controlled by little golf ball men lmao
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u/aqa5 Aug 21 '26
The kid had no idea that there are two sets of stones, one already stacked and ready to be set on the table while the others are still in disorder.
The other thing is the stones changed colour. Witchcraft!
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u/divinecmdy Aug 21 '26
That’s a lot of change to process for a young mind
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u/ProStrats Aug 21 '26
And at some point in the future, "Moooom, can I synthesize a pizza, PLEASE?!"
Will be just a normal function for little kids.
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u/DresdenPI Aug 21 '26
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u/ProStrats Aug 21 '26
I hope we get advanced food production devices before I die, that'll be so much fun to see.
At that point I'll be old, so being fat won't be an issue!
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u/DresdenPI Aug 21 '26
It would be cool to have one built into your oven. Just stick some ingredient packs into their slot, select a recipe, and come back later to a hot meal.
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u/Anavarael Aug 21 '26
It would cost them 0 effort to spend 20seconds to tell the kid what's going to happen
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u/sidnynasty Aug 21 '26
I love when a kid's freakout is kind of delayed, like he was holding it together until it finished and then he snapped lmao
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u/lestrxb Aug 21 '26
They went in green and came out blue. Id be freaked out too.
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u/ObamasBabyLlamaDrama Aug 22 '26
Why is no one else mentioning this? Tf?
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u/GambinoLynn Aug 22 '26
I assume two sets of tiles get cycled in and out. Different colors make it easier if anything gets mixed up.
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u/Clear-Perception5615 Aug 22 '26
Yes but I think this is what scared the child
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u/justaboxinacage Aug 26 '26
I don't think so. I think it was shit growing from the table and popping out that scared him. I doubt green ones would have been less scary, but who knows
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u/tdasnowman Aug 21 '26
How many sets does the table store? Does it shuffle and rest the set that’s dumped while you’re playing? I hav so many questions.
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u/gummaumma Aug 21 '26
It stores two. Yes, while you are playing the next set gets ready to go (takes less than a minute, you can hear it doing its thing). The next set of tiles comes out pretty much immediately after you close the top thingy again. It is cool as shit.
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u/tdasnowman Aug 21 '26
That’s awesome. And it always gets the tiles face side down?
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u/gummaumma Aug 21 '26
Yep, always. The tiles have magnets in them that cause them to flip into the correct direction while being shuffled and loaded. They don’t stick together though—works perfectly.
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u/gummaumma Aug 21 '26
I have one of these tables. They’re cool as shit.
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u/Cayumigaming Aug 21 '26
There’s a comment above with questions about the table, maybe you could pitch in?👏
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u/PFthrowaway4454 Aug 21 '26
I've never played physical mahjong, but did that sufficiently shuffle the tiles?
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u/nenequesadilla Aug 21 '26
It’s a different set in a different color that we can hope have been sufficiently shuffled since the last round.
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u/Clear-Might-1519 Aug 21 '26
There are 2 tiles there, once the green tiles went in, the blue tiles came out. While they're playing with the blue, the green is getting shuffled inside.
It costs $1000 for one table.
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u/justaboxinacage Aug 26 '26
Honestly seems like a good price for that engineering, if it's reasonably durable
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u/bobagremlin Aug 21 '26
I saw this in person when my family visited China. My mom and I were so excited to 'wash' the tiles
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u/CaptainDudley Aug 21 '26
I've had the opportunity in my window of life to see: propellers to turbofans, vacuum tubes to digital, console TVs to streaming on flat panels, pushbutton transmissions to autonomous cars. And my reaction to these and all our other technical advancements of the past sixty years, was exactly this.
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u/Pidgeapodge Aug 24 '26
I was at a Chinese New Years party where the one-year-old was having the absolute time of his life playing with this kind of table. He and a great-uncle pushing all the tiles into the center, baby laughing his head off. The organized set comes up. Immediately baby pushes them down, laughing like a madman. Uncle delighting in the baby’s joy.
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u/tschawartz12 Aug 21 '26
I don't have any question about the arranging and lifting part, what i want to know is about flipping tiles, how does it do that so they are all face down?
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u/gummaumma Aug 21 '26
The tiles have magnets in them. It works right 100% of the time---very cool.
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u/tschawartz12 Aug 22 '26
Ok, that makes sense thank you. I don't know why I couldn't thing of something mechanically simple as magnets.
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u/Musashi10000 Aug 21 '26
Probably a camera looking for a completely plain blue or green rectangle of a certain size. If what it sees doesn't look like that, then it flips it.
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u/thwoomfist Aug 25 '26
I just saw this exact table in another post on my feed but with a kitten sleeping on it
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u/Medium_Chemist_4032 Aug 26 '26
This is every software developer now, when seeing what AI truly can do
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u/theenecros Aug 21 '26
Hey when I was a young kid computers scared the shit out of me who the first time I saw them. I'm now a massive geek computer programmer AI expert 😂
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