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Bamboozled by Barbara Barrett
This is the second in the Mah Jongg Mystery series. Barbara is a friend and local author. I read the first book Craks in a Marriage a few years ago, but I became interested in reading more of this series after I recently took a Mah Jong class. (If you’re wondering why I have it spelled two different ways, it’s because I am not sure of the proper way to spell Mah Jong because the author spells it with two g’s but the class I took was one g. Maybe both are correct?) Now that I have taken the class, the terms used in the books now make sense. I am hoping to become part of a regular Mah Jong group soon.
This book is about Sydney and Trip Bonner, a husband and wife. Sydney is part of a Mah Jongg group in Florida. Her husband golfs with some of the other husbands. After the first book, Trip asked Syd not to get involved in investigating any more murders. He became involved with this one, thinking he could protect her. Of course he doesn’t do a very good job of it.
When Dorcus Wiley is found murdered, Cathy, one of Syd’s Mah Jongg friends is accused of murder. Her and her husband ask Syd and Marianne, another Mah Jongg player to help them prove her innocence. In the last book Syd and Marianne were the main sleuths.
Cathy had been working for the victim to help sell essential oils. It sounded like a pyramid scheme that went bad. All the people who worked along with Cathy for Dorcas became suspects.
While investigating the murder, they are also dealing with Kat, another Mah Jongg buddy who is dealing with breast cancer.
Syd and Trip follow the clues in hopes of finding Cathy innocent. They meet some questionable characters. We also find out that Kat has a police Sheriff who is romantically interested in her. He finds out about her illness and while concerned for Kat he also must keep warning Syd and Trip to leave the investigation to the police.
This is an interesting cozy mystery. There were enough suspects to keep me guessing until the end. I liked the human aspect of this story with Kat’s illness and how the friends supported her while trying to help Cathy.
I enjoyed the scenes that included information about Mah Jongg. I do believe that readers who understand Mah Jongg may get more out of this series. I know it made more sense to me after I had taken the classes.
I like the characters and the setting and do plan to read more in this series. I did mention the books to my Mah Jongg class and know that at least one person had already started reading the first book.
I do enjoy reading all my friend’s books. I often catch myself hearing their voice as I read. I also like the cover art it reflects the humor.
My one problem with this book was the number of characters. Sometimes I had to go back to make sure I knew who – was who. I also thought Cathy and Kat’s names were too similar. I got them mixed up at first. I do understand why there might be so many characters because of the number of players in Mah Jongg. I will read more to see if this becomes less confusing for me in future books.
If you like a good cozy mystery and are curious about Mah Jongg, I recommend this series. I would suggest starting with the first book in the series, Craks in a Marriage.
First published April 3, 2018
I include links to purchase. As an associate, I earn from qualified purchases. Thanks to all my readers who have supported me in the past.
A few books in this series by Barbara Barrett:
What I am currently reading:
Erie Ending by Christy J. Kendall
Last Night was Killer by Mary Pauline Lowry
I am discovering lots of new authors this year, thanks to NetGalley and recommendations from friends. If you have read a book, you think I should read, please leave a comment. I have found some of my favorite books from friends.
Happy Reading!
If you like a bargain. Check out my online bookshop at Pango Books.https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/virginia468417
Rate this:
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Bamboozled by Barbara Barrett
This is the second in the Mah Jongg Mystery series. Barbara is a friend and local author. I read the first book Craks in a Marriage a few years ago, but I became interested in reading more of this series after I recently took a Mah Jong class. (If you’re wondering why I have it spelled two different ways, it’s because I am not sure of the proper way to spell Mah Jong because the author spells it with two g’s but the class I took was one g. Maybe both are correct?) Now that I have taken the class, the terms used in the books now make sense. I am hoping to become part of a regular Mah Jong group soon.
This book is about Sydney and Trip Bonner, a husband and wife. Sydney is part of a Mah Jongg group in Florida. Her husband golfs with some of the other husbands. After the first book, Trip asked Syd not to get involved in investigating any more murders. He became involved with this one, thinking he could protect her. Of course he doesn’t do a very good job of it.
When Dorcus Wiley is found murdered, Cathy, one of Syd’s Mah Jongg friends is accused of murder. Her and her husband ask Syd and Marianne, another Mah Jongg player to help them prove her innocence. In the last book Syd and Marianne were the main sleuths.
Cathy had been working for the victim to help sell essential oils. It sounded like a pyramid scheme that went bad. All the people who worked along with Cathy for Dorcas became suspects.
While investigating the murder, they are also dealing with Kat, another Mah Jongg buddy who is dealing with breast cancer.
Syd and Trip follow the clues in hopes of finding Cathy innocent. They meet some questionable characters. We also find out that Kat has a police Sheriff who is romantically interested in her. He finds out about her illness and while concerned for Kat he also must keep warning Syd and Trip to leave the investigation to the police.
This is an interesting cozy mystery. There were enough suspects to keep me guessing until the end. I liked the human aspect of this story with Kat’s illness and how the friends supported her while trying to help Cathy.
I enjoyed the scenes that included information about Mah Jongg. I do believe that readers who understand Mah Jongg may get more out of this series. I know it made more sense to me after I had taken the classes.
I like the characters and the setting and do plan to read more in this series. I did mention the books to my Mah Jongg class and know that at least one person had already started reading the first book.
I do enjoy reading all my friend’s books. I often catch myself hearing their voice as I read. I also like the cover art it reflects the humor.
My one problem with this book was the number of characters. Sometimes I had to go back to make sure I knew who – was who. I also thought Cathy and Kat’s names were too similar. I got them mixed up at first. I do understand why there might be so many characters because of the number of players in Mah Jongg. I will read more to see if this becomes less confusing for me in future books.
If you like a good cozy mystery and are curious about Mah Jongg, I recommend this series. I would suggest starting with the first book in the series, Craks in a Marriage.
First published April 3, 2018
I include links to purchase. As an associate, I earn from qualified purchases. Thanks to all my readers who have supported me in the past.
A few books in this series by Barbara Barrett:
What I am currently reading:
Erie Ending by Christy J. Kendall
Last Night was Killer by Mary Pauline Lowry
I am discovering lots of new authors this year, thanks to NetGalley and recommendations from friends. If you have read a book, you think I should read, please leave a comment. I have found some of my favorite books from friends.
Happy Reading!
If you like a bargain. Check out my online bookshop at Pango Books.https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/virginia468417
Rate this:
#BookReview #Books #Fiction #Florida #MahJongg #Mystery #reading -
"Cries of “one bam!” and “two dot!” echoed through the halls of the #Museum of #JewishHeritage as #NewYork’s first-ever #Jewish #MahJongg Festival drew more than 350 lovers of the popular tile-based #game to Lower #Manhattan on Sunday and Monday.
Co-presented by #Kveller and its parent company, 70 Faces Media, along with #ModernMahjong and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, The New York Jewish Mah Jongg Festival consisted of two action-packed days of lessons, social gameplay, panel discussions about the #Chinese #history and the Jewish connections to the game, as well as competitive tournament play."
https://www.kveller.com/the-faces-and-stories-of-kvellers-new-york-city-mah-jongg-festival/
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"Cries of “one bam!” and “two dot!” echoed through the halls of the #Museum of #JewishHeritage as #NewYork’s first-ever #Jewish #MahJongg Festival drew more than 350 lovers of the popular tile-based #game to Lower #Manhattan on Sunday and Monday.
Co-presented by #Kveller and its parent company, 70 Faces Media, along with #ModernMahjong and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, The New York Jewish Mah Jongg Festival consisted of two action-packed days of lessons, social gameplay, panel discussions about the #Chinese #history and the Jewish connections to the game, as well as competitive tournament play."
https://www.kveller.com/the-faces-and-stories-of-kvellers-new-york-city-mah-jongg-festival/
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I guess this situation is even rarer than winning. 🤣
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I guess this situation is even rarer than winning. 🤣
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"#Mahjongg is not just your bubbe’s game anymore; it hasn’t been for a while. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there’s been a real boom in the culture around the #Chinese tile #game, which was “Americanized” by mostly #Jewish #American players in the 1920s.
And who can blame the game’s legions of new fans? There’s something just so addictive about the tile game, the clacking sounds, the thrill of trying to form a set and stop another player from winning, the addictive joy of finally getting to yell “mah jongg” and announcing your win to everyone in the room.
So it’s not surprising that the game also has many famous fans..."
https://www.kveller.com/these-jewish-celebrities-love-mah-jongg/
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"#Mahjongg is not just your bubbe’s game anymore; it hasn’t been for a while. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there’s been a real boom in the culture around the #Chinese tile #game, which was “Americanized” by mostly #Jewish #American players in the 1920s.
And who can blame the game’s legions of new fans? There’s something just so addictive about the tile game, the clacking sounds, the thrill of trying to form a set and stop another player from winning, the addictive joy of finally getting to yell “mah jongg” and announcing your win to everyone in the room.
So it’s not surprising that the game also has many famous fans..."
https://www.kveller.com/these-jewish-celebrities-love-mah-jongg/
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I don’t even need to continue. This one is unsolvable. 🤣
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I don’t even need to continue. This one is unsolvable. 🤣
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Howdy!
Today my joy is coming from anticipation. [Damn it--I just gave myself an earworm. I'm going to be humming Sweet Transvestite the rest of the night]
Our visitor kitty, Fuzzbutt, is going into general population tomorrow. His vet check worked out--hopefully he'll get along with the gang. We're still not sure what his owner's illness is . . .
Also, I found a local Mah-jongg event I look forward to investigating.
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25 years ago I discovered #JavaScript and have built dozens of #web apps since. These days, as a retired #Media #Engineering professor, I still enjoy the little #game I coded back then. Love #Mahjongg Solitaire? Go ahead.
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25 years ago I discovered #JavaScript and have built dozens of #web apps since. These days, as a retired #Media #Engineering professor, I still enjoy the little #game I coded back then. Love #Mahjongg Solitaire? Go ahead.
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Uuden vuoden aattona pelasin luonasaikaan KMahjonggia ja Kapmania :pacman: :blobcatgamer:
PS. Aion edistyä Kapmanissa tasolle 5 tai enemmän. Nyt pääsin 2. tasolle ekalla yrittämällä :blob_sweat:
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Uuden vuoden aattona pelasin luonasaikaan KMahjonggia ja Kapmania :pacman: :blobcatgamer:
PS. Aion edistyä Kapmanissa tasolle 5 tai enemmän. Nyt pääsin 2. tasolle ekalla yrittämällä :blob_sweat:
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Serie GNOME-Apps: Mahjongg
Wer kann sich noch an Mahjongg erinnern? Hände hoch! In dieser neuen Serie widme ich mich den ungehobenen Schätzen aus dem Repertoire der kuratierten GNOME-Apps.
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Serie GNOME-Apps: Mahjongg
Wer kann sich noch an Mahjongg erinnern? Hände hoch! In dieser neuen Serie widme ich mich den ungehobenen Schätzen aus dem Repertoire der kuratierten GNOME-Apps.
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fresh scans: 3 museum catalogues from Japan covering the history of Gambling, Dice, and Mahjong
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/07/scans-japan-museum-catalogues-for.html
Thanks to Detchibe for scanning them for me!
#retroarcade #japan #scans #gambling #mahjongg -
fresh scans: 3 museum catalogues from Japan covering the history of Gambling, Dice, and Mahjong
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/07/scans-japan-museum-catalogues-for.html
Thanks to Detchibe for scanning them for me!
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Does someone know a good #mahjongg #android app? Basically I want #KMahjongg on my phone. Nothing fancy and no shitty app that tries to scam me...
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Gawd I hate this...
* 1st because I'm distracted so easily (really should do something else right now)
* 2nd because it ends always, yes, always (!), like this...
#Mahjongg #MahjonggDesperation -
Gawd I hate this...
* 1st because I'm distracted so easily (really should do something else right now)
* 2nd because it ends always, yes, always (!), like this...
#Mahjongg #MahjonggDesperation -
I sometimes wonder why all the FLOSS #mahjong #games on Linux are always the boring American "mahjong solitaire" version, never the traditional "street" mahjong, which is 100x more stimulating.
It would be so cool if #GNOME's #Mahjongg game (or a derivative) had a multiplayer-like mode, the one played by uncles in the streets of Hong Kong (https://youtube.com/watch?v=qzcmCvOM2KY), but with the computer as opponents (like in the embedded video below, or most computer chess games)…
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I sometimes wonder why all the FLOSS #mahjong #games on Linux are always the boring American "mahjong solitaire" version, never the traditional "street" mahjong, which is 100x more stimulating.
It would be so cool if #GNOME's #Mahjongg game (or a derivative) had a multiplayer-like mode, the one played by uncles in the streets of Hong Kong (https://youtube.com/watch?v=qzcmCvOM2KY), but with the computer as opponents (like in the embedded video below, or most computer chess games)…
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Mahjongg Solitaire, an intriguing puzzle game invented by Brodie Lockard in 1981, was my very first online project, and yes, it‘s still there. Enjoy! https://www.thomasweibel.ch/mahjongg/ #mahjongg #game @chludens
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Mahjongg Solitaire, an intriguing puzzle game invented by Brodie Lockard in 1981, was my very first online project, and yes, it‘s still there. Enjoy! https://www.thomasweibel.ch/mahjongg/ #mahjongg #game @chludens
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What are the directions in a spinning space station or hollow planet? North, south, east, and west can be defined in the usual way in terms of rotation, but up and down are reversed.
Intriguingly, the directions in Mah Jongg have an equivalent issue (east and west appear "reversed") because the table corresponds to a map of the sky, not the earth.
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What are the directions in a spinning space station or hollow planet? North, south, east, and west can be defined in the usual way in terms of rotation, but up and down are reversed.
Intriguingly, the directions in Mah Jongg have an equivalent issue (east and west appear "reversed") because the table corresponds to a map of the sky, not the earth.
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Justin reviews the new introductory mahjong experience Meet MahJong from ThinkFun.
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#AmGaming #CasualGaming #CasualGamer #Gaming #Mahjongg
This is more like my usual monthly tally, a few short of perfect. I might be able to knock out one or two of those missing if I grinded it out for another hour or so, but when I started playing this again a couple months ago I told myself that I wasn't going to do that. If I didn't get it in the first couple tries, just walk on.
(edited for missing words, LOL ADHD brain)
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I've recently been reading up on American mahjong(g), which uses "cards" with lists of valid hands in the given year published by the National Mah Jongg League (NMJL).
Now, I would be more than happy to buy one and pay for the shipping, except the online store of NMJL (or any of the resellers) doesn't ship to Europe. It seems like I would need to send a letter to NMJL with a return envelope and an international reply coupon (or call their phone number at a right time - they don't do email) asking how much I would need to pay, and then sending a mail order with a filled money order or something :neofox_dizzy:
Or I could just write down all the hands from a tutorial on YouTube that shows the card and explains everything :neofox_peek_bread:
#mahjong #mahjongg #AmericanMahjong #AmericanMahJongg #麻雀 #NMJL
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VIDEO FIXED.
This is the first music video and the first video mashup I ever made.
The only version that's been online since 2004 has been so murky it was barely watchable. So here is a much better one.For the last year or more, I've been lugging out the old hard drives which miraculously haven't crashed. It's been fun to look at this old stuff.
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"#Mahjongg Solitaire", 1981 vom Entwickler Brodie Lockard in Stanford erfunden und ein Blockbuster der noch jungen Gameindustrie, war vor 25 Jahren mein Einstieg in die Webprogrammierung. Letzten Frühling hab' ich das Game neu aufgelegt - für alle, die (wie ich) ein Spielchen für zwischendurch zu schätzen wissen. https://www.thomasweibel.ch/mahjongg/ #opendata #game
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"#Mahjongg Solitaire", 1981 vom Entwickler Brodie Lockard in Stanford erfunden und ein Blockbuster der noch jungen Gameindustrie, war vor 25 Jahren mein Einstieg in die Webprogrammierung. Letzten Frühling hab' ich das Game neu aufgelegt - für alle, die (wie ich) ein Spielchen für zwischendurch zu schätzen wissen. https://www.thomasweibel.ch/mahjongg/ #opendata #game
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Forgot I already had created this account nearly a year ago, so moving over here. Therefore, new #introduction
#Almost40 #lesbian #lesbianmom #NYGiants #football #music #cooking #dogmom #catmom #momof3 #autistic #adhd #audhd #BobsBurgers #reader #mahjongg #marvel #LotR #TheHobbit #GOT #vikings #LockeandKey #single #SmellyCandles #thriftshopping #untamed #glennondoyle #abbywombach #soccermom #tarantulas #podcasts #audiobooks #52BookReadingChallenge #storygraph -
Forgot I already had created this account nearly a year ago, so moving over here. Therefore, new #introduction
#Almost40 #lesbian #lesbianmom #NYGiants #football #music #cooking #dogmom #catmom #momof3 #autistic #adhd #audhd #BobsBurgers #reader #mahjongg #marvel #LotR #TheHobbit #GOT #vikings #LockeandKey #single #SmellyCandles #thriftshopping #untamed #glennondoyle #abbywombach #soccermom #tarantulas #podcasts #audiobooks #52BookReadingChallenge #storygraph -
Playing some #mahjongg while updating my #Tumbleweed PC. #screenshotsunday
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looks like my #mahjongg tiles are finally finished 🀄. any feedback is appreciated, especially from mahjongg players or chinese speakers.
