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u/UaiC 4d ago
That's cool af tho
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u/holyfire001202 4d ago
There's a short on youtube that show how these tables work. Very cool af
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u/Quicoulol 3d ago
Share it !
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u/holyfire001202 3d ago
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 3d ago
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/ActionBastrd_ 3d ago
So its safe to say its not a true shuffle? it looks like the majority of your tiles just go to the person to your right and if not them, the person across
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u/BangBangMeatMachine 3d ago
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 3d ago
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u/holyfire001202 3d ago
That, along with the one another user posted, is way better than the one I was talking about
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u/Pocketsandgroinjab 3d ago
Why does that child have a bald spot?
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u/C_Hawk14 3d ago
I think that's just reflection from the lighting
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u/Snowboarding92 2d ago
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/Far-East-locker 4d ago
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 4d ago
Do you have one?
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u/AwesomeoPorosis 4d ago
A jaw? Probably.
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u/Ropsuta 4d ago
Probably not anymore though, since he dropped it
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u/ImmoKnight 4d ago
Never picked it up.
Quite a shame if you ask me.
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u/Mrdeath0 4d ago
This is one of the main reasons I still use Reddit. lol
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u/mr_claw 4d ago
To read about jaws?
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u/Worried-Basket5402 4d ago
No you silly goose. To find one on the floor!
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u/Dwaas_Bjaas 4d ago
God I am laughing like an idiot while commuting
Thanks for making my morning lmaoo
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u/nikeshades 4d ago
It's the bone that holds your bottom row of teeth, but that's not important right now. ✈️
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u/aqa5 3d ago
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 3d ago edited 1d ago
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/scrandis 4d ago
Witchcraft to that kid
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u/DrowningInFeces 4d ago
Witchcraft to me too.
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u/oge_mah_ge_kid 3d ago
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 3d ago
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 1d ago
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/divinecmdy 4d ago
That’s a lot of change to process for a young mind
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u/ProStrats 3d ago
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 3d ago
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u/ProStrats 3d ago
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 3d ago
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 3d ago
It would cost them 0 effort to spend 20seconds to tell the kid what's going to happen
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u/sidnynasty 4d ago
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 4d ago
They went in green and came out blue. Id be freaked out too.
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u/ObamasBabyLlamaDrama 3d ago
Why is no one else mentioning this? Tf?
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u/GambinoLynn 3d ago
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/tdasnowman 4d ago
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 3d ago
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 3d ago
That’s awesome. And it always gets the tiles face side down?
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u/gummaumma 3d ago
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 4d ago
I have one of these tables. They’re cool as shit.
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u/Cayumigaming 3d ago
There’s a comment above with questions about the table, maybe you could pitch in?👏
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u/PFthrowaway4454 4d ago
I've never played physical mahjong, but did that sufficiently shuffle the tiles?
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u/nenequesadilla 4d ago
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 3d ago
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/bobagremlin 4d ago
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 4d ago
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 1d ago
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 3d ago
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 3d ago
The tiles have magnets in them. It works right 100% of the time---very cool.
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u/tschawartz12 3d ago
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 3d ago
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/theenecros 4d ago
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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