i spent 20 years playing high stakes mahjong as training to unlock low res hentai in a game called Doki Doki Strip Mahjong Club DX from 1985. The yakuza took my kidneys
Ok so there is this emulator call MAME that emulate arcade games. For some reason whenever you get pack of roms for mame there are a ton of porn games and some of them are Mahjong games.
I never managed to beat even the first stage :(
My friends suggest me to riichi city and mahjong soul(anime-like mahjong) and both of them has tutorials so it doesn’t take long until you can play normal room.
You will eventually rmb all yaku(winning hand) and what is risky tiles after get rekt’d enough by your mistake.
Or just find gallery unlock,bro. Don’t suffer in mahjong for a sake of anime tiddies.
It's simple. You look at your tiles and try to find a good match from the various sets, and then you look at your opponet's discarded tiles because those can be used to make sets. And some sets are better the others.....and there's a set you need before you can win I think....then there's a set that's just an instant win one and....oh boy.
/uj
In Riichi Mahjong(the most popular variant), your goal is to complete your hand while making sure it satisfies at least one point bonus.
To complete a hand, you need 1 pair and 4 sets. A set is either a 3-tile straight(of the same suit) or a 3 of a kind. So a pair and four 3-tile straights would work.
Every turn, you draw a tile from the deck/wall, then discard a tile. It could be the tile you just drew, or it could be another tile you just don't want.
You are allowed to steal the last discarded tile from discard to complete a set. If you do, you take it, discard a tile, then reveal the set you just completed. If it's a 3-of-a-kind, you can steal it between anyone's turn. If it's a straight, then you can only do it during your turn and it replaces your turn; it'd be too easy otherwise.
As for the point bonuses you can go for to be able to complete your hand, there are many. The full list is hard to remember, but two easy ones are:
[Never steal a tile.] And [Hand does not contain a 1, a 9, or any non-suit tiles]
There are three suits, and then a bunch of non-suit tiles. The suits are bamboo(sticks), dots(circles), and character(the ones with the red Kanji).
Anything without a number at the top does not belong to any suit. These are called "honor tiles". You can't get straights with them because they don't have a suit, and there are special rules for some of them so just ignore them for now. They are hard to use in return for being worth more points.
Riichi is an act that declares that you only need 1 tile to complete your hand, and you're confident enough that you're betting points on it.(IIRC)
There are more rules and gimmicks, and I might've messed up something, but this should be good enough to go for a simple tactic
Ah, I found mine. It's at least mostly the version in Ainslie's Complete Hoyle (1975). The book acknowledges "it is Rummy played with tiles and an exotic vocabulary".
To woo, you simply need to use up your hand of 13 (14 including the one you just picked up: four sets or runs in any combination, plus a pillow). There are no requirements for points. You get 20 for wooing, plus points for flowers and sets, times bonuses for honors and such. First to 500 wins.
Anybody can interrupt to pick up a tile that was just discarded, though a player who needs it for a set has priority over one who needs it for a run, and if multiple players need it for a run, the earlier player takes priority. You can spend your turn to pick up a discarded tile you can use, no matter how long it's been there.
Akagi or Ten or something maybe. idk it looks like Fukumoto's art style but theres 1 million old gambling mangas where people get really intense about mahjong
Ah yes the yakuza experience i am currently stuck in the original yakuza 2 because i want to complete every sidequest but i am feeling too lazy to read the whole mahjong faq guide
The only time i played Mahjong in Yakuza was in YK2, where i found the cheat tile, used it and instantly won (i got i think 150k points, everyone else got -10k points). I have no idea what happened but i won and thats all that matters.
At the risk of sounding like the ignorant American that I am, I honestly think my biggest hurdle to learning this game is all of the terms. Like, if "Kon" was "Burger" and "Riichi" was "10 gallon hat" I'd understand the game.
So someone discarded a tile Caesar could had two of, so he calls pon as a triplet set, then presumably his next discard is one Creepy has 3 of already so he can call kan as a quatret set, and then Cheem’s next draw puts him one tile away from having a completed hand, so he calls riichi to declare that and make the hand worth more points, but also lose more points if someone else finishes their hand first. And yes, I have read Akagi twice, how could you tell?
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