/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>fucked up pastebin link
https://pastebin.com/ML5gMMY9

puramai zero?!
M...masaka

>>17956771
>0.0 in red

>hand starts off with a fa triplet
>don't hope for anything more
>someone discards the fourth fa
>call Kan for the hell of it
>flip new dora indicator
>it's pai pan, giving me Dora 4
>mfw

Ended up winning with Dora 5 from one 2pin I got later. The flow exists and it loves me

>>17958098
>fa
>pai pan
I assume this is chinkshit or something?

>>17958129
Well, this is what I get for pulling the names off the first site I google, I guess.

Never bothered to learn the names for honor tiles.

>>17958098
>pai pan
Lewd.

What's your favourite hand that you've ever gotten?

>>17962465

>>17962486
Hard to say since I don't know what game they're playing with all of those discards (maybe some form of draw poker), but I feel like the straight flush is probably a better hand than a 大三元.

>>17962465
Open riichi baiman on a tanki wait

>>17962465
Managed to land the full nine-sided wait chuuren poutou once. Nothing has been more satisfying imo, not even a 13-way kokushi.

First daisangen today, this was the starting hand. I did not kan, to camoflage the yakuman.

>>17962465
It was sanma but I won a tsuuiisou shousuushii off a rinshan kaihou draw

>>17964081
>sanma

Kyouko, get out.

>>17963022
I'd ejaculate on the spot with that hand

Let's do some mahjong drills!
I'm assuming since we're jaypee you guys don't have any problems with japanese. If you are a beginner, take this as a reading writing practice.
Spoiler your answers!

>>17965225
Since there's drawing and writing involved, answer via an image.
がんばれ！

>>17965225
Fuck the kanji for yaku, I don't remember how to write that shit.

>>17965225
I've been slacking on my japanese in favor of mahjong practice

>>17965439

>>17963022
Too bad about not going 9man tanki to fuck this idiot over.

Oh well, at least, you still got it.

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017113005gm-0009-0000-98951752&tw=0

These draws and discards in east 4. It feels like the game is mocking me

>3:0

I think I'm being stalked by NoName...

>>17967713
Just get into the dan lobby.

>finding about this thread
I can finally get 100% completion in Yakuza

>>17968407
you're in for a world of fun suffering my friend

>>17968460
He's just here to complete yakuza, not join the grind. He'll have fun.

>>17956237
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=672kDczZtvA

Come at him, bros.

>>17967713
Maybe he wants to confess his love to you!

>>17968691
>mahjong is the only 4 player table game
Biitch nigga never played the UNO before I see.

https://youtu.be/7IRbb7IuYzA

>Drop a live dora late into south 4 while I'm first place.
>Get double ron'd for 28000.
I deserved nothing less.

>>17969788

I've had the yellow mountain import mahjong set for a few years now, but after seeing this video I got to wondering- are they a bit smaller than standard tiles? The ones in that vid certainly look bigger to my eyes at least.

>>17969332
>>17968691
Or contract bridge

3:0

>>17971540
Automatic tiles have magnets inside of them. So, if they are a bit larger, that's why.

>>17971969
Ahhh that makes sense. I wonder if I could get a set of automatic tiles separately easily, as I would actually like larger tiles

Got Suuankou tenpai in last but I dealt in, so I went to check where my waits are and they were all in the hand of the guy who disconnected.

I was better off not even knowing.

>>17972093
Sorry, my computer suddenly went to sleep and when I restarted, it's stuck at loading.

>>17956237
If I'm in first place on the last hand, do you think it's better to focus on defending or calling to try and end the game fast with a cheap hand?

>>17972139
Is your hand fast enough to pursue?
How far are you to the second place?
What's the possible ron case? Can you still save your first place even if it hits you? Would tsumo be enough to lose your place, especially if you're the dealer?
For me, the general approach is to play safe, but sometimes when you sense danger (riichi from second place, possible dora bomb, etc), maybe killing the game ASAP is better.

>>17972139
Very situational decision.
Go play a couple games with you as first in oorasu then post here and ask how you did.

>slow day at work
>try to get a quick game in at my desk
>game going ok, probably end 2nd
>the fucking phone rings
>forgot about a client that was calling in today
>try to betaori with one eye on the game, one on work
>get ron'd into oblivion

deserved it...

How exactly do you get better at this game?

I know the basics, but now it feels like every game I play is entirely based on luck. I'll either do fine or everything goes completely tits up, pic related.

I've no idea if there's set strategies to follow or you just "know" what to do after playing a ton and I need some advice.

If I sound dumb as shit it's because I am.

2:0

>>17975625
Make that 3:0.

>>17975582
It looks like you need to work on your defensive game. Google riichi mahjong defense and read up.
You may have just gotten really unlucky and either not had any safe tiles or just didn't think your opponents were as far along as they were, but if this happens consistently, you probably need to work on your defense.

>>17975582
there's no magic formula as far as getting better. the game does have a very real luck factor that cant be ignored, but how you manage that aspect is how you develop skill.

efficient discard choices, good push/fold judgement, risk management, reading discards piles, these are all things you will develop as you play.

dont give up!

>>17975582
If you don't know what furiten is, or how to use it to your advantage, learn it.
If you don't know what suji is, learn it.
If you don't fold hands you can't win, you need to start doing that. If you don't know how to fold in mahjong, learn it.

Those are the three defensive techniques that everyone uses, from the intermediate players all the way up to the pros.

Great game Doragang

>>17975864
Got pretty lucky with the big hands. You guys should have defended a bit more, though, specially against that honitsu.

>>17975678
Play against better opponents, and eventually get better that way.

>>17956237
is that like that game where you have weird ass pieces on top of each other and you have to find pairs?? you need thread for that?

>>17976370
Yes. How will I ever find my perfect match otherwise?

>>17976434
woa deep, i like
Learn me that game

even though i have no one to play with down here these were a fun purchase

>>17977637
Washizu tiles are usually a good deal.
I've seen them as the cheapest set available sometimes.

>>17978234
But cheap Washizu sets are shit

3:0

I tried giving this another shot recently and now I am enjoying it a lot more.

Might be a tad early but how's December treating you all so far?
>3+3+1+1

Hell, that game is complex. I got to know the rules and stuff, but Jesus, there are so many of those Yaku's from which I remember like two or three...

>>17981103
focus on the commn ones. stuff like chankan is once a year

>>17981484
Yes, I understand, it's just that I pretty ,uch always go for yakupai, maybe sometimes betting on getting tsumo, very rarely trying to get a straight or only simple tiles. I think I should at least consider other stuff, but it's hard and I don't even know which ones are really more and which less common.

>>17980542
Like shit.

>>17981517
the most common are tanyao (all simple), pinfu (no point hand), yakuhai (dragon set), kazehai (round and/or seat wind set), iipeikoi (double run) and of course riichi and tsumo.

once you get the mindset for these easy yaku, move on to less common but more rewarding yaku like honitsu (half flush), chinnitsu (full flush), etc

as said earlier, experience is the best teacher. take a look at replaus too, it'll really open your eyes

>>17981576
Thanks. Yeah, I guess everything will come with experience, I often forget that I need a pair, not only four melds for example.

I.... I felt the flow for the first time today... And it was amazing.....

>>17983253
I don't care that it's potentially not a real thing, the flow is what I play for.

What is your yakuman count for this year?

>>17984319
Against human players - 0
I got a Heavenly Hand on the flash version once though

>>17984319
Just one Daisangen. Got tenpai for Suuankou twice and once for Kokushi but that's about it.

>>17984319
0 in 4p
15 in 3p (16 if you count individual yakuman from doubles)

>>17984319
Just one kukoshi. A glorious experience.

>>17984319
I need more variety

I'm a begginer to mahjong. I only played the flash game and most of my hands are worth 1000 points. Should I learn all these yaku to improve my game?

>>17991668
Eventually, yes. They're essential towards building bigger hands, when you recognize it.

>>17991668
I'd argue that making pinfu is essential for basic mahjong gameplay.

It teaches you about difference between sequence and meld. It shows you the most optimum way to make hand (3 blocks and 1 pair, 2-sided wait for the 4th block). It tells you difference between number tiles and honor tiles, and forces you to know your round/seat wind.

The requirements are overwhelming for beginners, but once you understand that yaku, you will quickly realize why pinfu is the most common yaku in riichi mahjong (outside of yakuhai and riichi itself).

Fuckin' blue-balled.

>>17992092
Chinitsu chiitoi tanyao, baiman?

>>17992112
>Chiitoi
That could have been a ryanpeikou, and throw pinfu in it too.

tfw called two kans in a row but didnt win on the second draw like in my animes.

>>17992785
You failed at Saki. Try harder!

tfw riichi'd with an open wait and the guy next to me tsumos on the exact tile I needed with a closed wait

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017120611gm-0009-0000-bf8d2ce6&tw=2

I don't think I'll get Saki-tier luck like in South 4 for a long time.

>>17995242
>scoring baiman to make up a 200 point gap
>double kan rinshan

Now, that's some Saki tier abuse right there. Glorious.

Do you guys have background music or just listen to the tile smacking sounds? I listen to the Legendary Gambler Tetsuya ost usually.

>>17997298
Sometimes I listen to the Akagi OST, but usually it just makes me play worse cause I try to be cool and make dumb plays. I'd really like some background music I could tune out like janryumon had, because if I listen to anything I actually like it pumps me up and then I play like a retard.

>>17997326
Saikyou no Mahjong 3D has pretty good music.

What's the best mobile single player mahjong app? I just want something to burn time with, tengokupai was great but requires an internet connection to play with bots which bothered me a lot. Are there any actually good single player apps? All the ones I'm seeing have bugs out the ass in terms of not recognizing all possible hand combos or shit like awarding full points to all players in a multi-ron situation

>>17997298
I play muted since I'm either at the office or in bed when I play

>don't play mahjong for some time
>my low tier tokujou account got axed
>make a new account
>tried to play aggressively
>stormed ippan as usual
>go into tokujou
>pic
Nothing unexpected, but I guess it's time to git gud again.

>>17997384
>go into tokujou
>R1665

I think you mean joukyuu.

>>17997636
Of course, little typo from my side.
I just wonder if there is some kind of guide which can help me with decision-making in certain situation in the game. I started to reread some old guides and realized that I still have the knowledge, but even after this few games in joukyuu I see that if I'd go for faster rather than stronger hand I could end up with higher numbers like this.
Sure, it's natural after a few months of break, but I always have some problems with it, so something to fasten the process would be great.

It's a dumb thing, but sometimes I wonder if the position of the tiles help with certain waits. Whenever I go on a suji trap but someone calls the tile that sets the trap, I always wonder if the others will forget about that tile, making the trap less useful. Likewise, when the tiles in your discards are lined up, like going for a 4s wait but having the 1 and 7s lined up, I wonder if that makes people pay more attention to those tiles, making the trap mure useful.

It's probably a really dumb thing to worry about.

>>17997298
Some 2hu music

>>17997684
>I just wonder if there is some kind of guide which can help me with decision-making in certain situation in the game
Like what?

>>17996114
>S4, in the lead
>no need to get fancy, any trash nomi hand will do the trick
>end up with dama baiman

welp

>>17998922
JUST RUB IT IN THEIR FACES

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017120708gm-0089-0000-e19c5111&tw=0
>tfw never lucky
It's been a wild ride though.

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017120708gm-0009-7447-2a51fd50&tw=1
>Go into West rounds because you are a retard
>Still bullshit your way to victory.

>>17997684
>guide for certain situation
Just post replay and ask for help.
Also, what do you mean by "certain situation"? Don't understand what you mean dess sempai.

>>17984319
I don't remember getting any this year but I did get tsumo'd by suuankou twice in the past two sessions I've played in.

That feeling when I somehow got out of this rut and still pulled a gyakuten out of my ass.

>>17999540
>S4

Holy fuck, that was retarded

>>17956237
Are there any good english books on mahjong strategy?

>>18000591
dinnerman

>ranked back up tonight

after an embarassingly long losing streak kicked me down, I'm glad to be back where I belong. only took a month.

My love of card games has finally driven me to learn mahjong. After a week or so I don't feel quite as pressured from the timer on Tenhou, though it still causes me to make mistakes sometimes.

>December: 5+7+5+2

TFW you have to play the game all by yourself.

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017120808gm-0009-0000-03703f79&tw=2

Not too much longer until I'm out of ippan, at least.

>>18003650
DESTROY THEM ALL

>>18003650
I remember that happening to me a long time ago in ippan. My dealer turn was so fucking satisfying as I systematically dismantled the opponents one by one.

>>17995242
I didn't even know the next dora tile isn't flipped on a tsumo on an open kan. Interesting

>>18006110
Yup. The rule is to flip only after you discard when it's daiminkan/kakan.

The 2016 revision of EMA rules is weird.
>No Abortive Draws
>No Red Fives
>Kazoe Yakuman doesn't exist (Sanbaiman instead)

There's a couple other strange things about the ruleset (fu are called "minipoints"; Chinese terms used most of the time), but I assume they still have the best standard printable guide for teaching the game, so I guess I'll suck it up if I really want to get other people to play.

>>18007189
Those are essentially WRC rules

>>18007189
>Kazoe Yakuman doesn't exist
what the fuck

>s4, in the lead but not by much
>starting hand is pretty crap, no easy yaku
>In a moment of zen-like clarity I realize that my hand isn't the key to winning this game, it's kamicha's 4th place struggle that will
>toss a chun, hunch was right, he pons
>toss his seat wind, hunch was right, he pons
>he's clearly in tenpai, and just in time since the dealer (2nd) riichi's
>the trap is set, I can only hope it works >lay low and toss safe tiles
>kamicha rons the dealer so hard he almost overtakes me (almost)

can't believe it worked, feeling pretty fucking smart right now

>north seat riichis
>get into a damaten tenpai waiting on 5 or 8 pin
>a 5 pin is in north seats discards
>west seat immediately discards the red 5
Goddamn it feels good

>>18007465
When washizu gets riichi dora 12 at your table, it will be 3 against 1 of "fuck this. kazoe yakuman is bullshit, this isn't fair".
I'm of the view that reaching 13han is as hard, if not harder, than getting a yakuman but I get where that rule is coming from.

>1 4th place in 20 games
>3 in last 3 games.

>>18008902
>ranked 2nd and 1st in16/20 games
Sounds good to me anon

A haitei raoyue shousuushii... I messed up.

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017120913gm-0009-0000-c32dedc2&tw=1

>>18007465
Europeans must like doing those retarded kans, that give players the dora needed to get 13

>>18009407
That's very probably true

>>18009407
No bully

>>18009407
I was thinking about how to reach 13 han with no dora.
Ippatsu mentanpin chinitsu sanshoku is 13han. Then I realised how stupid that was.

>>18011066
>chinitsu sanshoku

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017121003gm-0029-0000-8665b1a4&tw=0&ts=9

The more I look at this round, the more I'm baffled by how lucky I got. Everything lined up just right.

If I hadn't called that 7s pon, I'd have drawn the 2m and dealt into a dealer haneman right into last place. If the dealer hadn't dropped the 6p the shimocha would have got a tsumo that would leave the toimen in first place. And if the shimocha hadn't called riichi I wouldn't have had enough points to make the gyakuten. Got way too lucky there.

Then again, it's my first 1st place in 17 games.

>>18011066
My theorycrafting led me to toitoi san ankou san katsu honrou seat+round wind yakuhai sanshoku doukou. For the last yaku, either haitei, houtei, or rinshan will bring you to your yakuman. This is an absurdly specific hand, since it easily could have been several other normal yakuman.

>>18011066
If you're going with Chinitsu, might as well throw iitsu in there. With iipeikou, that leaves you with 9 han already. The remaining 4 can be riichi ippatsu tsumo and pinfu.

I feel really dirty after this. 1s tsumo, while 2 2s tiles were in dead wall.

>>18011916
Why wouldn't you just discard the one and two sou until you get something better to wait on, and then call riichi?

>>18012087
That's definitely good alternative. I just felt at that time I had to take the initiative.
Is it possible to detect tenpai situation with those discards? Shimocha had a 7p pon call. I couldn't tell during the game, but looking back at the picture, toimen has it close, and that 6s and 7s discards from shimocha are weird.

What to read after Dynaman?

>>18012656
lunchman

>>18011916
I was writing a reply to >>18012087 when I realised, what's that 8m doing there in your discards? It's a tedashi and your pinfu is going down the drain so what's up? What happened?

>>18012659
It was like this during that 8s discard.

>>18012789
Oops, meant for >>18012699

>>18012699
Scratch that. You're right, I could have switched out my penchan wait to much better 58m wait. Mistake's on me.

>>18012656
A Japanese language textbook. You're out of English mahjong learning materials.

>>18012824
translate it for us, weeb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLSIR3U0Zs

This pisses me off. I don't know where "lrn2mahjong" ends and where my mahjong autism begins.

>>18012656
Dinnerman II apparently coming out
>(hopefully by the end of 2017)

>>18012656
https://mahjong.guide/

>>18011066
Riichi chinitsu ryanpeikou tanyao and two of either pinfu/menzen tsumo/ippatsu.

Where do I go to gamble on riichi online?
I don't care if I lose I just want the thrill of pretending I'm Akagi

>>18015004
You put 5 dorra in front of your computer and play Tenhou.
If you lose you burn it.

>>18015078
It's no fun if I can't watch someone else despair if I win

>>18015091
If you want to see someone despair when you win then you burn the 5 dorra and look into the mirror.

>>18015004
there's this site called mahjong time that has all types of mahjong and allows for gambling. the riichi rooms arent exactly super popular but you can line up

be warned, thier interface isn't the best and I've had my discards fucked with while playing

2:4 let's get in the pool yeahhhh

>>18017245
and you posted this here... why?

Is getting Tokujou at all viable for a dirty retard gaijin like me?

>>18022179
Anything is possible anon! Even for a dirty retard gaijin like you!

>>18022179
There are many gaijins floating around 4-5dan, so it's not that rare.

When you get demoted on Tenhou do you go back to 0 points in the previous rank?

>>18022764
>降段/昇段時の余剰ptは切り捨て、開始ptからスタート
Looks like back to starting point. So, you'll have 600 points at 3dan, whether you're promoted from 2dan or demoted from 4dan.

>>18022764
yes. if you get demoted from 3dan you go back to 2dan 400/800

>>18022815
>>18022813
Thank you

>>18012936
What's wrong with this exactly? I thought it was fine.

If you want more serious stuff related to Mahjong and Higurashi, read Tsubame-gaeshi hen. It was serialized in kinma I believe.

>>18024380
The elephant is of course, ooishi isn't actually in furiten. Since ooishi discards after kei's 6p, akasaka's 6p could still be ronned off.

When they pulled a suucha riichi, I started considering the possibility of chombo riichi by kei to end the game. If they don't check tenpai, suucha riichi aborts the game and if they do check, what you would want is either akasaka to be the dealer so he gets paid more or for kei to be dealer so the point advantage is maintained. I can't see the points for Rena and ooishi so I did not consider a case where they're dealer. Hence I started counting tiles to figure out the dealer.
E1 had the wall broken in front of kei, seven tiles from the right. If using a single roll to decide the wall break, this means Rena is first dealer. This means ooishi is last dealer so trying to end the game with chombo isn't a guaranteed victory. However, E4 has 7 tiles in front of kei and 7:08 even blatantly shows a roll of 8 on screen with a 7 tile break. Whether they use 2 rolls or 1 roll to decide the wall break, the walls are wrong. If kei had 8 tiles in front of him, it would be perfect.(rena is first dealer, oiishi is last and the tile break is correct). It's a lot of stuff to look at and I might be wrong somewhere but that's what I figured.

>>17995242
I didn't even know the next dora tile isn't flipped on a tsumo on an open kan. Interesting>>18024598
>The elephant is of course, ooishi isn't actually in furiten. Since ooishi discards after kei's 6p, akasaka's 6p could still be ronned off.
I didn't notice at the first watch, I just thoguht Kei is toimen from that scene and didn't pay attention to the seating afterwards.

>>17975758
I don't get how furiten can be used defensively, isn't it just cockblocking yourself? Where can I read up on that and I need a simple yaku cheat sheet. I remember this one being good http://osamuko.com/yaku-overview-pdf/ when i first saw it a few years ago. I lost the pdf file though.

>>18026880
>I don't get how furiten can be used defensively, isn't it just cockblocking yourself?
Keep in mind that all those mahjong rules apply not just for you, but for other 3 players too. If you discard 3pin, you can't win from other players' 3pin discard. In the same way, if one opponent discards 3pin, he can't win using your 3pin discard, so that tile is safe for you to throw away.
The rest, you can read on that pastebin below OP's post. Especially that Dynaman link, it's great read.

>>18026880
>I don't get how furiten can be used defensively
If someone drops 4, then you can imply 1 and 7 to be relatively better options to discard. That's assuming most waits involve ryanmen.

>>18026880
>defense furiten
On this topic, matching your kamicha's discard is always 100% safe.

Do you ever feel like you are always one tile behind the other person at times? Feels bad.

>>18030653
That happens every time you aren't the dealer anon, it's not your imagination.

Need one more player on 7447.

How do I get filthy rich like this guy?

When suddenly all experience and reason go to waste and you can only see possible yakumans

>>18031649
Hard work and dedication. Also, whip out your wallet.

3:0

>when you get your first yakuman

>>18031676
I see a pei nomi.
Also, get your ass into joukyuu where players don't d/c for reasons unspecified.

>>18033336
Will never forget mine, even though it wasn't a super difficult one to get.

I just got to 1st Dan and went for my first game in Joukyuu. Got Daisangen tenpai in E1 waiting on haku. 4th Dan Kamicha called Kan and discarded his dead wall draw which was the haku I needed. Felt good.

On an scale of 1 to 6, how retarded is calling riichi on the last possible turn?

>>18033701
Are you blond? How tall are you? Do you wear big red ribbons?

>>18033706
5'2
Black hair
just a ponytail

>>18033701
as always, the answer is "depends"

>>18033719
Well. Let's say I would discard a safe tile while calling riichi. It's also ryanmen wait.

The hand being mangan with our without calling riichi affect your decision?

>>18033732
def dont then

>>18033732
If you have a yaku you should almost never call riichi in the last couple turns (certain S4 or when way behind). If you don't have a yaku and don't have any value then it's the free sex button and you really shouldn't riichi.

If you have good value and a good wait but no yaku then there is nothing wrong with hitting the button.

>>18033701
Are you Koromo?

>>18033607
>All honors
>Little four winds
>Big four winds if I'm really lucky
Looking at the wall and all, the setup was really on my side. Unfortunately, I ran out of luck. No regrets though

Almost had my first Yakuman... ended up in tenpai on a pair wait. Maybe next time!

Feels pretty great.

Ok

>>18036850
I tried to get Nagashi Mangan before but I always run out of tiles to do it.

>>18033701
At that point, you don't call riichi to win, you call riichi to make others fold and stop a dealer from getting renchan or end the game. It'll all come down to how badly you need to end the game in a draw with only you in tenpai.

Chances are, people being people, someone, or everyone, could still easily push their tenpai without dealing in to you, so you'd essentially have lost 1000 points difference against everyone else.

>>18036850
>Calling riichi with a guaranteed haneman waiting on a non-suji-trap 6
It's your own fault.

Will you riichi at this turn? If you hold and eventually get a pinfu wait, what will you do? I held and the wait changed to shanpon 7p and pei, and I won it by tsumo on pei.

>>18040282
Trying to get pinfu is by far the best option here. You need the points and it's too late in the game to be likely to have better chances, you'd be one tile away from a far better tenpai and it's early enough to be reasonably safe and allow for other options.

>>18040308
I guess so, but this is one scenario I'm likely to struggle with. If you have tenpai at very early turn but with bad wait(s) like that, would you wait until you improve your wait or declare riichi right away? In that picture, I held because 6p wasn't likely to come out.

Do you guys only play richi
and do you guys only play online

>>18040325
It really depends on the other factors. If a better wait wouldn't potentially result in one extra han, it'd probably be easier to riichi (as long as it wasn't too dangerous to do so). If I was in first place that late into the game, I'd have to think harder about riiching on a risky wait like that and might just settle for defending.

>>18040362
I only play riichi and I only play IRL

>>18040362
I've played IRL a few times, it's a lot of fun but finding players (who aren't old women) is pretty difficult.

>>18040376
>>18040379
Do you need red 五s and sticks to play riichi
I only have a normal set

>>18040388
The place I play in follows EMA official rules, which disallow red 5's.

If you don't have sticks you can just keep score on a piece of paper, but you can buy just the sticks for pretty cheap on e-bay if you want them.

>>18040375
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for your thoughts.

>>18040388
Sticks are obviously helpful but it's perfectly fine to write scores down or not keep track of them at all in casual games. Red fives are not needed at all for riichi mahjong, they're just bonuses that some house rules use.

>>18040282
>>18040308
>>18040325
>>18040375
S2 is not late, he's in 3rd place not in last, he's the dealer so winning means getting another round, as dealer riichi + red five can easily be worth a lot with ippatsu/ura dora. There aren't even that many options to improve the wait. Note that 3 fives and one 2 are already visible. Even if you get two pinfu with 34 ryanmen the wait wil still be for only 4 tiles. Yes you could draw an 8p but the chance isn't even larger than getting a 6p by tsumo.
This is an isntant riichi.

>>18040362
I play online mostly but I frequent a riichi parlor at leadt once a month

>>18040388
You can always stick a dot on a 5 of each suit if you want to play with red dora.

How does this make you feel? Also had two uradora, making it a haneman. I can't believe it worked

>>18041078
Neat but pointless riichi. It was impossible to take first place so should've just played it safe.

>6dan 1900+R in Joukyuu
>he ends up dead last

don't underestimate us third-rate folks!

how do i change the background at tenhou guys?

>>18041552
Did you buy the premium license or whatever for the downloaded version?

>>18041637
yes, i did

>>18040282
>I held and the wait changed to shanpon 7p and pei, and I won it by tsumo on pei.
I miss being able to fuck around like that

>>18041790
I thought you could just change the image file in the game folder, although I haven't tried.

>>18041078
You didn't consider going for chinroutou? Or just calling some pons which I think would also make it a hefty hand.

>>18041880
That's an all or nothing approach.

>>18041552

>>18041891
thanks mayne

>Dealer has riichi nomi hand
>Turns it into 4 han because of menzen tsumo and San ankou
Delet this immediately.

Never done this before!
Today will be a good day :)

>>18043358
However, you chose the wrong tanki.

Hello, I am trying to learn Mahjong and I am currently doing a dumb dumb.

Please could you tell me why is this not a winning hand?

I have Characters 7-9 and three Bamboo threes, along a pair of Number sixes in my hand, and Numbers 6,7,8 and three Bamboo ones in my melds.

>>18043358
The correct answer is 2s tanki
No one is going to deal in

>>18043416
I won that hand and the hole game so I don't mind :)

>>18043462

>>18043508
No, you're a Yaku

>>18043462
Refer to a yaku list and identify your yaku. Come back when you have an answer.

>>18043462
You need more than just 4 sets of 3 and a pair in order for a hand to be a winning one.

I was introduced to riichi a few years ago but I couldn't into it because yaku
I tried playing bots in the flash version last week and I think I got the hang of most of them, is there anywhere I can do a test to make sure I really know them? I don't want to end up like @18043462 in an actual real game with real money and consequences

>>18044986
>Playing a real game about real money when you have barely recognized the yaku

>>18044992
Akagi did it, I dont see why not

>>18044845
>>18043626
is it not "All Simples (Tan'yaochuu) ?

>>18045277
nope to have Tanyao you musn't have Terminals or Honors. Terminals are 1 & 9s in your hand you have 9pin, 9man, and 1 sou

>>18045312
Oh damn, I completely forgot about terminals. They were on my first page of hand notes too.

Thank you anon!

>>18044986
download virtual tenhoG on your phone (assuming you use android).

It has drills that present you with a hand ans you figure out its value. the app then lists all of the yaku and value

is there an english guide or something for MJNET (Sega mahjong)

I mean, i know how to play, i've been playing with this software on pc for a few weeks, but i need a website to learn how to use the bingo cards/ challenge cards, since i've got two of them, pic related

>>18045782
No not really but I think that card is for an official 4 player game (premium games) and you have like 5 games to fill it out.

>>18045782
https://sites.google.com/site/mjnetguide/home

>Pon white dragon
>Kan south wind and 9man
>9man turns up as dora
>Switch my wait on a shanpon 4 and 6 man, discarding 5man
>Realize I'm basically playing with an open hand by now
I'm a fucking retarded

>>18041886
>Implying a single tile wait on a wind tile that only has a single piece left in game isn't

>>18041880
True, could've done that. Guess I fucked up that 9sou call then.
I started out with this after my first discard and decided I might be able to pull off kokushi muso. Then it somehow evolved into 5 pairs midway through.

>>18046093
Once shit started pairing up, then kokushi was not the way to go, as demonstrated.

About to get demoted but I at least got this earlier.

>>18046272
You can't get demoted from 1 kyuu.

3rd kyu, r1570, am I screwed

>>18047734
Im 1st Kyu R1362 if it makes you feel any better.

>>18047734
Your R really doesn't matter until 3rd dan. Start worrying about it then.

>>18048096
This, though I think my R is even lower.

>>18047734
>>18048096
>caring about points
lmao @you

>>18048881
If your points aren't good enough you don't get to play against the stronger players in tokujou.
That's plenty reason to want a good rating.

>playing like shit, down to my last 1000 point
>wonder why I'm even bothering with this shit, I should just quit
>get clarity, turn things around and go on to win the game

never give up lads

>>18049015
If your skills aren't good enough you don't deserve to play against stronger players. Try worrying about getting good rather than getting R, and the R will follow.

>the virgin tenhou grinder
>the chad parlor player

>>18049144
How do you suppose people get better R? That's right by betting better. It's literally the same thing.

>>18049217
Do non-japanese parlors even have players of decent level? According to the Daina Chiba book japanese ones are usually about tokujou level and I'd guess foriegn ones are probably much worse.

what are the easiest ways to get mangan?

>>18050331
Luck

>>18049727
LAPOM is quite competitive. Some of them don't play Tenhou, though.

>>18050331
It's really easy if you have pon on dora

>>18049727
the parlor I frequent has some real fucking monsters, but generally the western parlors are more chill

>>18050331
Riichi, pinfu, tanyao, 2 dora.

>>18051199
Only need 1 dora. 7700 is pretty much mangan.

https://youtu.be/R8DIVJMwnv8

commenters lose their shit

I was yelling too

>>18051621
FUCKING SAKI

>>18051621
saki irl is a guy wtf

>>18051252
>"Pretty much"
You will never amount to anything with that mindset, anon.

>>18051621
UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

USO DA!

EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!

>>18051678
How do you feel about that?

>>18052090
Much less surprised than I thought I would be desu~

>>18050331
Riichi, 2 dora, 1 ura..

>>18050331
Open tanyao dora 3. 7700. Good enough.

>>18049727
A small handful are capable of playing at 7dan

Does a red 5 deny pinfu yaku

>>18051621
Are we posting some classics now?
https://youtu.be/G3Lvwp-2duE

>0:12

Holy shit. What's the occasion?

>>18053891
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7su2I_D0y4

>>18053891
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAzP4IH-UNE
Classic Akagi.

Hi. New player here. Well at least new to playing online. I've been playing on 天鳳 for a little while and I've noticed that the game goes very fast, except when someone is given the opportunity to pon/chi. If the guy before me plays a 一万, there is sometimes a delay before I draw which basically tells me that there are pretty much no more 一万s left in the game. Isn't this an unfair advantage? Are there any servers that don't do this?

>>18051962
>一万
What?
Play more and you'll get used to it. You will only need those seconds on very critical time, like deciding between push or fold, or choosing different waits. For the rest, you can even decide what your action in next turn before you draw your tile. Some players are playing with 3+5 seconds per turn just fine.

>>18054166
Holy shit I'm drunk, meant for
>>18054146
Also, there's also subtle delay between each turn to cover pon/chi delay wait.

Fucking hell

>>18054335
I fail to see the problem here. What's wrong?

>>18040282
i like breaking up the pei pair and going for true value.

>>18054851
Guy on my left tsumod

Can you fullscreen tenhou?

>>18057460
yeah, upper-right options should have english fullscreen command

>>18057016
So what's up with that? I still don't get it.

>>18057603
It's the last round and I presume he got booted to a lower place like 3rd cause the guy tsumo'd and cockblocked his honitsu win.

I'm the secret NoName final boss of 7447. Dethrone me.

3:0

>>18060185
stfu, get a name FAG.

>>18060185
Thanks for taking all my bad luck.

Remember kids, don't be reckless or you're gonna lose points. But fuck that guy actually having 5 dora and being dealer

>>18061156
>But fuck that guy actually having 5 dora and being dealer
See than kan call? Your fault.

>>18061156
I've been browsing the Tenhou Yakuman list lately, and I've seen so many players regardless of rank deal right into a Ryuuiisou when their calls scream it.

>>18061238
Fair enough, I was greedy and wanted another tile.

>>18061352
This is just a Hon Itsu though. I could've even concealed my hand if I hadn't drawn shit. But unfortunately I only got man tiles after my first calls.

>>18061467
Yeah sorry, I replied to your comment without taking a detailed look; I saw Hatsu and green sou tiles in your hand and just went from there.

But its still related to reckless play. I don't know how people can still deal into a Ryuuiisou when that players has called 2-3 times.

>>18061352
Ryuuiisou is so damn rare you might as well ignore its existence.

>>18062073
That may be true, however I would always consider the risk.

>>18062073
>>18062080

having been on the delivering end of ryuiisou, folks never account for it.

Have you read any mahjong book in Japanese?
Did you rike it?

>>18062367
Yes
Yes

>>18062715
Which one?
I've been trying to get Oshihiki no Kyoukasho but I want to know if the runes are going to fuck me in the arse.

>>18062367

>>18062367
does akagi count?
I liked it, I think.

>>18062955
I meant textbooks.
But yeah, if you read it in Japanese then it goddamn counts

>>18062829
I've read a handful. I don't know how good you are at Japanese but Oshihiki no Kyoukasho is relatively easy to read and is broken up into bite-sized chunks. In general, Fukuchi and Hirasawa Genki are good teachers and their books are easy to read.

First time trying Joukyuu, what am I in for? I'm scared

>>18064485
People maybe kind of sort of knowing a little about what they should possibly maybe be thinking of doing. Slightly.

>First South round
>Down to 2300 points already
>I didn't even play into anyone's hand
Fuck 3 dora, 2 aka dora, 3 ura dora sanbaiman

I kinda feel dumb for dealing into this this fuckers hand. On the other hand, I don't expect that much luck

gamedesign.jp has a couple of bizarre variants, including this one-suit one where you can chombo.

Final part of Puyo's guide to calling tiles is out.

https://mahjong.guide/2017/12/20/puyos-guide-to-calling-tiles-part-8/

Do you need to pay to play on tenhou or what's the deal

>>18067114
The desktop client is a monthly subscription.
The in-browser version is completely free.

>>18067114
desktop client is cracked here
http://minomino.org/tenhou/

>>17992112
daisharin. Ryanpikou pinfu tanyao menchin for a 11han sanbaiman. Some house rules outright call it a yakuman

>>18066816
Yea, fuck that asshole.

>>18074061
>not making tenhou ryuuiisou suuankou tanki

Two in a single game.

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017122011gm-0029-0000-e7254ad5&tw=3&ts=4

How can I get replays on mobile Janryumon? Also, is there any site where I could download it for my computer directly? The main site never starts the download.

>>18076332
>Janryumon
This shit is still operating?

>>18075050
>Suu ankou on the rinshan
>dai san gen on the first discard after you got tenpai

wtf is up with that shit
holy fuck

>>18075050
whot in the absolute state at the moment right now is

>>18076332
I thought they closed down the mobile app ages ago.

You need to use Internet Explorer for the PC version, since the launcher uses ActiveX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZhwCo0Ibwo

Nintendo may take more of my money.

>>18075050
>tokujou
Oh my

>>18078737
Who cares about that when Janryumon has been confirmed for the switch?

>>18078982
Which version is less shittier?

>>18077476
>>18078478
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.winlight.jannavi_dot&hl=en

http://www.ncsoft.jp/janryumon/

>>18078982
>>18079138
Jannavi and Janryumon are two completely different platforms.

Next

>>18079726

>>18078737
>>18078982
Can you even buy Japanese digital games on the Switch? I know it's region free, but how would you even buy those games, especially the first one being download exclusive