Cigarette Ganpai Trick

From Battle of Wits Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search

Cigarette Ganpai Trick

Trick information
Series: Ten
Trickster: Takashi Ten
Target: Hiroyuki Igawa, Sawada
When: Ten, chapter 8

The Cigarette Ganpai Trick is a Trick in the Ten manga series. It is played by Takashi Ten against Hiroyuki Igawa and Sawada in chapter 8, as part of the Mahjong Match for the Ramen Shop.

Summary

Ten uses the ashes of his cigarette to discretely mark the backs of tiles with different patterns during the first half of the 4th hanchan session, allowing him to know the tiles in advance during the second half. In the South 3 round, he uses this knowledge to manipulate the tiles to get a hand with 4 dora and win by tsumo with a rinshan kaihou honitsu, a high-scoring baiman hand.

Counter-Trick

In the South 4 round, when Hiroyuki realizes how Ten is marking the tiles, he marks additional tiles in the same way without Ten noticing. This way, when Ten prepares to win from a chun he expects to draw from the wall, he instead draws a ton that Hiroyuki had marked, failing to complete his hand.

Notes

  • This Trick is an instance of ganpai, the mahjong term for the common cheating technique of marking tiles.