mahjong thread

[Anonymous No.]

On second thought, I still don't quite understand why I couldn't ron here.

There should be easily more than enough han to make the call, yet it went right by without the option ever showing up.

old and outdated pasta in next post

[Anonymous No.]

mahjong pasta:
SUMMARY AND SCORING:
http://ofb.net/~whuang/ugcs/gp/mahjong/mahjong.html

HAND VALUE GUIDE:
http://guide.riichi.nl/reachmahjong/hand_values/han_value_frameset.htm

BASIC GUIDE:
http://guide.riichi.nl/reachmahjong/intro.htm

WHY CAN'T I RON (furiten rule and general hand combos):
http://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/yaku/yaku.htm

ANOTHER GUIDE (also good):
http://www.mahjongtime.com/Japanese-Modern-Mahjong-Rules.html
http://www.mahjongtime.com/Japanese-Modern-Mahjong-Rules-4.html

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454229

Get good.

[Anonymous No.]

You lack a yaku. Learn your hands.

[Anonymous No.]

Should've kept those 6 sous and tossed those 4 pins.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454229
when you say more than enough han do you mean NONE?

>open hand
>none of the directions are yours
>not even one color

what are you even doing

[Anonymous No.]

>4p

[Anonymous No.]

First off, you have ZERO points. Dora points do not count towards your one single minimum point needed to ron.

Secondly. . .FURITEN MY FRIEND FURITEN YOU THREW A 6-SOU BEFOREHAND.

[Anonymous No.]

anyone ever play on pairon/nico douga?
you get to choose moe characters to play as.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454229
Woah.

Why'd you keep the pair?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454229
That's a wonderful hand for kan castle.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454413
1. didn't notice I was furriten (or that my hand was worthless), \
2. the dora would've nifty to the hand total, and
3. discarding a dora when the wall is about to end is generally a great way to lose a lot of points really fast.

otherwise, lessons learned:
SEE THAT LINE IN THE PASTA I POSTED THAT READS >WHY CAN'T I RON FUCKING READ IT INSTEAD OF SHOWING ALL OF /jp/ THAT I AM A DUMBASS
also, kans don't quite work like pons as a rule of thumb for yaku calculations. also these stuffs>>10454295

[Saegrimr !SHIELDM.mE No.]

>>10454317
I still don't understand why you hate 4p so much.

>>10454452
I shouldn't have laughed at this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454384
I tried pairon but it was way too unoptimized and annoying to use

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454473
>the dora would've nifty to the hand total

You would get the exact same amount of points by going for an open half-flush. And you'd win, too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454473
>3. discarding a dora when the wall is about to end is generally a great way to lose a lot of points really fast.
I dunno, looking at your discards and what you hold, it's easy to say "If you ditched the pins and kept the sous your shape would've been much better" but I don't know what had to start.

[Anonymous No.]

http://tenhou.net/0/?L7447

Get in here nerds.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454229
No Yaku, faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

This is why I sometimes hate playing 7447. I hate playing in ranked too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10455418
>4p

[Anonymous No.]

>>10455468
Now waiting for 3p, I like 3p more than 4p but no one ever joins ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>10455471
>3:8
Fuck you ultranerd.
You made me checked

[Anonymous No.]

>>10455474
2 more to go 3p.

[Anonymous No.]

Go train with >>>/a/ then come back once you think you can handle 3p.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10455418
Please join for 3p.

[Anonymous No.]

One more player needed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10455480
>>10455539

[Anonymous No.]

>>10456081
3p is more badass though. If you don't get at least an 12000 points hand you're worthless and deserve being laughed to.

[Anonymous No.]

Please join L7447.

[Anonymous No.]

Wanna play?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454229
Wow thats an embarassing screenshot, you should really learn to play before posting things like that.

You should atleast name it "Why to never play in 7447.jpg" or something

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460189
>You should atleast name it "Why to never play in 7447.jpg" or something

...but if he is a beginner, he isn't the one annoyed by beginners, and thus would have no reason to put such a title.

[Anonymous No.]

Behold, the DOUBLE YAKUMAN!

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454229


OP, this is why you can't:

I'm sure you felt pretty good about snatching up those wind tiles and making sets, but they are neither your wind seat nor the round wind. You set yourself up for a difficult time if you try that without having some other kind of yaku in the bag already.

So the short version is, you still had no yaku.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460481
>>79729129

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460481
>>>/a/79729129

[Anonymous No.]

Does any one know of a good mahjong client for macs?

Preferably one that can be played offline.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460481
>suukantsu
oh wow....
Can someone post the probability and % of suukantsu in Tenhou?
This shit is rare as fuck, probably even harder to get than baka gate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460680
Woah. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460709
Not sure how recent this.

[Anonymous No.]

Every time

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460748
You should have been warned from honitsu after those 3 calls.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460753

I knew he was waiting on a pin tile, but I was more scared of a wait on the 4, 5, and 6. 8 felt like the 4th most safe pin tile to me.

[Anonymous No.]

do you guys play with red doras?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460768
Yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454234
Basic Guide link is ded

[Anonymous No.]

Is there a site that explains the ins-and-outs of the Windows Tenhou client? I just got it and it takes up the full screen while I see some people running it windowed. I've tried Google but all I seem to find is information on the flash client.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460767
I would have broken my tenpai hand and discarded all possible safe tiles, securing first position is the best priority. Of course, there will be bonus round since he's on East, but that could be dealt later on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460777
Not that I know of, but alt+enter should toggle full screen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460787

Yeah, hindsight is 20/20. Was still a fun game though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454234

Just watch this instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0brmqq4sk

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454317
>being a mahjong scrub

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460709
I don't even usually call kans, they tend to give more points to the opponents than to the one making the call. But after the first one, it seemed logical to continue calling them in case I got the yakuman.

I had high hopes for that hand from the very start, and well, it did meet my expectations, and more.

My favored wait was a giveaway, and I could have aimed for a simple yakuman, but this was too beautiful to break.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460791
I found alt+enter but even in "windowed" it takes up my whole screen minus the start bar so I can't resize it or move it around.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460733
>0%

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460481
>suu kansu

Wow, fuck you for scoring one of the more coveted yakuman

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460811
Oh. Do you run windows on a really low resolution or something? I don't think there's any way to run the client lower than 1024x768.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460787
>>10460767
Actually in that case he should be actively trying to deal in to tanyao dude on the left.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460829
My native resolution is 1366x768 so maybe that's the issue.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460709

Suu kansu is so rare, it doesn't even appear on the list:
http://tenhou.net/sc/prof.html

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460481

/r/ game link plz

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460859
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013020807gm-0009-7447-8494ff98&tw=2

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460812
>>10460843
It could be easily broken, since the kan calls make it obvious, so anyone would try to get kan and abort the round. So yeah, it's that rare.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460748
>play like a retard
>lose
Hurr everytime lol!

Maybe it wouldn't happen if you were not being stupid as shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460768
why would you not

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460864

Oh damn. He lucked out when Toimen disconnected, otherwise it's Ron off of the 2-pin.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460868

On top of that, it only takes one tile to outright prevent any and all possible kans.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460887
What.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460864

Shit, and it was fucking Haitei

[Anonymous No.]

So close to my first yakuman ;_;

Why would he drop the 5s instead of the 9m if he's got a tanyao hand?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460733
Newer version with more precision.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10463141
He probably thinks you're going for a chin itsu and was probably aiming for one himself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10463173
Tenhou version using data from the middle of last year. Note that it's on a different scale.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10463177
so chinroutou x suukantsu is like striking a jackpot? what a waste of godly luck. should have used in on a jackpot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10463141
You're furiten off that 1m, so it'd be very short-lived happiness had he dropped the 9m. And as said, he's going for chinitsu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10463192
Luck doesn't work like that.

[Anonymous No.]

One more player needed.

[Anonymous No.]

BAM! Daisangen!

[Anonymous No.]

>>10469022
Dear MrZen.

Please stop getting Yakuman hands in my games.

Sincerely,
Tuborg

[Anonymous No.]

>>10463332
couldn't he have called the 9m and cut one of the 6m to change to a better wait?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10469035
Tuborg, you're bringing me luck.

Also, thanks for sharing the last one with /a/, I didn't even know they had mahjong threads like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10469088
Glad for you, but you're hurting my precious e-stats (and ego)!

I don't know if it was this game or last, but you declared riichi and I had no safe tiles to deal; looked in your pond and saw an 8p and 2p - figured 5p should work out. Ippatsu...

The /a/ threads are mostly Saki with a sprinkle of mahjong players, but they did appreciate that double yakuman you pulled.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460481
>>10469022
more reason for me to quit tenhou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10469107
Seeing how that game was going, that helped your stats.

[Anonymous No.]

Mahjong all day every day.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't often get honroutou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10472799
I'm on to your game Mr Zen. After those 2 pons there was boss music playing. That was an intense game by the way.

[Anonymous No.]

Will I ever understand mahjong?
I'm watching >>10460801
but I'm not sure I'll even get how to play I don't even really understand the tenhou site

[Anonymous No.]

If you actually want to get better play in the ippan rooms and stick to a name

Playing against people who cant play for shit wont get you anywhere

[Anonymous No.]

>>10472875
Tenhou is quite easy to use.

http://tenhou.net/0/?L7447
This is the room most 4chan users play in. The standard one ends in L0000 and is quite a bit more active, but has a very big mix of good users and complete newbies that have a high rage quit ratio.

Once you enter your name and come to the screen in the pic:

1) You don't need to worry about these tabs as you'll be on the main page by default, but the 1st one is the main page, 2nd one shows current games being played in the room, and you can follow the url there to see time delayed games. The 3rd tab shows your game history and has replays of the games.

2) Your name and stats.

3) All these buttons are for different rule sets of mahjong. The most popular one is the 4-player one that allows for red 5s and is both east and south round. In the screenshot, the 2:8 means that there are 2 players currently waiting to start a game using this rule set, and 8 players playing already. Just click the button to line up to play, and once 4 players are waiting a game will start.

You might want to play some singleplayer mahjong outside of tenhou first if you're completely new though, the discard timelimit can be quite stressful for new players.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10469107
>precious e-stats
>7447
Hahahahahahaha.
http://waml.harphield.com/index.php
Whoever has the most autism and games played would be at the top. It is like I am really playing in a MMO.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10473160
That was mostly sarcasm since the stats are kind of pointless, but yes sarcasm on the internet etc etc. I only play in 7447 online though, so it is nice that tenhou keeps track of your placement percentages so I can see how I'm doing in general.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10473062
Oh okay thanks did actually expect help

[Anonymous No.]

Can someone explain to me why I sometimes can't riichi even though I'm in tenpai?

Also jesus christ the time limit on this thing is fucking brutal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474006
Not sure if trolling but anyways...
You can only riichi when your hand is closed...
That means you cant riichi if you have called Pon, Chii or Open Kan.

[Anonymous No.]

Come on danroom step it up

[Anonymous No.]

>4P

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474029
scene listing

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474033

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474064
I haven't seen that dog in a while.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474072
He's had a tuff time recently.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474029
xin tong is that you
go back to cydus

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474006
You get used to the time limit pretty quickly, assuming you're not in 速. Better to avoid pissing off more experienced players with long wait times than to cater to people who have played fewer than 20 games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474098
What?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474029
>>10474037
>premium
>pay2win
>4p
Step it up senpai

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474164
>not enjoying mahjong so much you pay for it.

[Anonymous No.]

You know, mahjong seems a lot less involved than japanese media makes it out to be. I feel like I struggle to get into tenpai and then once I do I basically just sit back to see if the tile I need comes out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474231
You should learn to play then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474231
No way, you mean media exaggerates things?

But really, there is more to it than that. For example, sometimes you might even want to lose on purpose. Although I guess tenhou is a bit different than "real" mahjong since it's based around where you place relatively instead of how many points you get.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474240
Still happens.
>be in first with lots of points
>guy in second has a scary seemeing hand
>third place is trying to win with extremely obvious open tanyao to end the game quickly and not lose
>play into his shit hand
>win game

[Anonymous No.]

Why did I riichi on this shitty fucking wait I could have had a dora 5 sanankou with a better wait if I wasn't such a trigger happy fuck goddammit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474286
>sanankou
what? you mean multi wait iipeiko with the 6m? I dont see any other trips.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474286
Actually considering this is orasu and you needed 6300 points to win, and assuming the kan came after your riichi, your decision was not that bad, as it gave you guaranteed mangan and first in case of victory. Who cares about getting a baiman when a mangan will give you first place anyway ?

[DORAgon No.]

Finishing with a Rinshan Kaihou - it almost felt like I was watching and episode of Saki.

EastTaco, you glorious bastard!

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474286
Not aiming for Suuankou?
That's why I don't like playing you guys nor /a/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474334
Orasu, everyone below 30k points and you choose to aim for a yakuman ? In this situation everyone will go for a cheap and fast hand rather than risk having someone else break 30k before you. Definitely not the time to go for suuankou in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474334

You don't 'aim' for anything if you don't have to. At best you keep your hand open to the possibility, but when tenpai comes, you take it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474342
And when is the time to go for a Yakuman hand?
In the last rounds when the player with higher points will start calling tiles to win with cheap hands as Tan-Yao or Yakuhai?
If you have a chance to get a Yakuman hand go for it, you might be unable again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474361

The time is when only 32,000 points will save you. That time is essentially never.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474361
Like >>10474359 said, you take it if it comes, or yes, if you're 20k points below the guy in 3rd place, whatever the risk.

[Anonymous No.]

Well fuck you guys too.

[Anonymous No.]

is it ever worth it to go after Chiitoitsu?

It just seems very difficult to complete. I've had hands that were at 5 pairs by the fifth turn but never materialized regardless, and even if I keep it open to the posibility of san/suuankou it never really gets into tenpai.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474533
Chitoi is a hand that often reaches iishanten or even tenpai quickly, and then stops there. Since it's almost entirely dependent on the luck of your draws, it can be hard to complete.

Some tips: keep an eye on the discard pond, and get rid of tiles that have been discarded two or three times. Prioritise keeping live tiles to maximise your chances of drawing them. Hang onto terminals and honours that are less likely to be used in your opponents' hands.

[Anonymous No.]

It's not fun playing from far behind. For once I had a solid hand with chiitoitsu, iipeiko, tanyao only to get skipped like 5 times by calls then have second place play into first's 1500 hand to end the match.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474619
No it isn't. If you're last by the end of south you're pretty much screwed, because other people will be going for fast hands AND avoiding you while you try to get a heavy closed hand.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474619
Chitoitsu doesn't stack with iipeikou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474619
chiitoitsu rely too much on getting 2ura dora to make the hand big.
Better go with ryanpeiko if you have iipeiko kind of hand.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474658
Except that ryanpeikou is less common than some yakuman. It's smarter to just go for chiitoitsu.

[Anonymous No.]

°3°

[Anonymous No.]

I feel so powerless without my almighty open tanyao.

[Anonymous No.]

Made my first yakuman in a irl game today, /jp/

it was a suu an kou
feels awesome man

[Anonymous No.]

gayboy janishit

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>10475718
1han open tanyao hand everyday 24/7

[Anonymous No.]

>>10474240
I don't like how the proportional return is so huge

[Anonymous No.]

You know I always see these mahjong threads and it looks like so much fun. Wish I knew how to play, looks so confusing to me. The only mahjong I ever play is some mahjong match the tiles games on my pc. I know even if I do get the general idea of how to play I would get destroyed by the more experienced players which would be pretty much everyone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10476875
Dont be a pussy on us now anon
Just try your way with CPU's first and you will be fine

[Anonymous No.]

>>10476875
This thread is proof enough that the average /jp/ player sucks, so you have nothing to worry about.

[Anonymous No.]

Just busted my first player today. Feels like I'm channeling KoG.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10454452
But you can tsumo if you're in furiten.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10477983
You can always tsumo if you have yaku, so if you can't - you're in furiten, pigs fly and hell freezes. Welcome to the wonderful world of logic.

[Anonymous No.]

Let's play /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

Wanna play?

[Anonymous No.]

:3

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone knows what these options mean in the windows client?

[Anonymous No.]

sup

[Anonymous No.]

Is accel world shitface still around? I still need to kick your ass.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10484755
The first dialog is for adjusting the background. The dropdown box is used to pick which layer to adjust the colors, shadows, highlights etc. for. Should be pretty obvious which is which by playing around with the sliders and pressing update. The second dialog has the following options:
>Hide ID at login.
This will replace the numbers and letters with #
>Always show chat.
This will show chat in ranked lobbies as well.
>Tsumogiri with right-click
>Pass with right-click.
>Tsumogiri with double left-click.
>Pass with double left-click.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10484988
Later on at night.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10484993
But it's already night.

[Anonymous No.]

Furiten Richii I am so retarded

[Anonymous No.]

Just as planned.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10463177
I've seen a 9-side chuuren!

[Anonymous No.]

>>10477037
>east 3
>17k points
You can be lucky that you have good dora

[Anonymous No.]

I am sick of this shit

[Anonymous No.]

should you break tenpai on your tanyao only hand to make pinfu too? assume that you don't have any dora and it's still east round.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10485401
How often do you go for closed tanyao nomi?

[Anonymous No.]

The clash of the tiles, the clash of the minds! Let's play!

http://tenhou.net/0/?L7447

[Anonymous No.]

>south 4
>surprise 11 han hand
>going from last place to first
I can't believe it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10486920
I had: riichi, menzen tsumo, ippatsu, tanyao, pinfu, sanshoku (closed), 4 dora. Not bad.

I didn't even see the sanshoku at first, and the menzen tsumo + ippatsu was a nice surprise, combined with the tanyao that wasn't guaranteed. And one ura.

[Anonymous No.]

>4p

[Anonymous No.]

>>10486935
>3p

[Anonymous No.]

>double riichi

[Anonymous No.]

>>10486938

>ZZZp

[Anonymous No.]

I should play more defensively. I kept dealing unsafe tiles during this game.

[Anonymous No.]

Many people today.

[Anonymous No.]

So many games where it seems like I just get drained to death. Someone mangan tsumos while I'm dealer and then every time I'm about to make a hand someone else finishes their cheap 2000 point hand.

[Anonymous No.]

>toss out a tile
>the next three tiles are the tile that was just dealt

[Anonymous No.]

>>10488316
I've found the best strategy to counter bad luck is to play completely recklessly while never playing in to anyone. If everything else fails I use my special power and get tenhou double/triple yakumen until the game ends.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10488384
From what i've learned theres three ways to end a game.
Winning, losing, and not losing.

[Anonymous No.]

Can someone help me out here? I have no idea how I won. I just got a hand, a few tiles and did a Reach.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10488439
You didn't win. At the end of the round the people who aren't in tenpai pay a penalty to the people who are.

[Saegrimr !SHIELDM.mE No.]

>>10488439
Looks like you were just the only one in tenpai when the round ended. Not so much winning as >>10488401 "Not losing"

[Anonymous No.]

>>10488476
>>10488478

Thanks. Brand new to Mahjong so I'm still trying to figure out whats going on. Even when reading guides I don't really get things until it's explained to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10488489
There is a lot to learn at first, but eventually you will start to assimilate the rules and understand a bit more what yaku to aim for, and what to deal or not.

Here are some links you should already have (which should be all you really need once you know the rules):
http://mahjong.dk/filer/riichisheet.pdf
http://arcturus.su/tenhou/

[Anonymous No.]

If I like card games, would I like mahjong?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10488614
If you like Rummy, at least. Guess it depends on the type of card games you like. If you like poker, then you'd probably like mahjong as well. They're both games where luck plays a big role in the short run, but being good at the game will give you an edge over opponents in the long run. At least that's how it feels to me, having played poker somewhat seriously in the past and taking mahjong pretty seriously now as well. Oh, and both are just as frustrating.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10488776
All kinds of card games really, from Hold 'em to Magic the Gathering. But it sounds like it would be my kind of game, thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10488614
There are similarities. I suggest you try to learn the rules and play a few games against CPUs before going against actual opponents though, so you can discover the layout of the game without bothering others.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey, I wanted a chuuren poutou!

[Anonymous No.]

Really...?

[Anonymous No.]

4th kokushi mosou in my life.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460882
Furiten

[Anonymous No.]

The cowards at /a/ are afraid of this. What about you

[Anonymous No.]

>>10460801
I watched this but it feels like I don't get it at all. Any other guides or help?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10494786
Watched that first part, right? Open the wikipedia yaku page or http://www.japanesemahjong.com/reachmahjong/hand_values/han_value_frameset.htm and then go full Akagi, ie start learning by playing with bots trying to get a certain hand you choose (use http://arcturus.su/tenhou/index.html for Tenhou explanations in English).

I recommend starting with trying for tanyao/tan'yao, 7 Pairs or Straight, simple stuff like that. Play with bots until you start to feel like you're getting the hang of it a little. Then read more in-depth into those yaku pages and master a couple more of them to try getting during games. Also read on the concept of getting hans, so that you start understanding a bit on how to minimize point losses, and even more importantly furiten, so that you don't get your shit slapped back to you. Also read up "UmaiKeiki's defense guide" on Osamuko to get basic theory about how to not deal into riichis. Then drop the bots, register your Tenhou ID and start playing with real people on Lobby 7447 or 0000.

After that it'll be up to you. Read on more in-depth theories, build on your foundations, learn more yakus, work on your defense, watch the other 3 parts of that tutorial video, etc. But above all play a lot.
And keep cool. Don't ragequit even if you get fucked up. You can also have your windows screen grabber ready during play and grab screenshots of winning hands and study them, it's a good way to learn the hands.

[Anonymous No.]

That was not keikaku doori at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10495680
Thank you. I also watched part 2, but he just puts more and more info in it and it confuses me

[Anonymous No.]

>>10497550
The most important part in Part 2 is furiten part, so at least watch until that part.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10497550
No problem! Getting into Mahjong is a bit complex, but it's a fun game, and revealing the hidden strategy layers beneath it as you start to grasp the rules and conditions step by step makes it even more fun.
Also /a/ has frequent Mahjong threads (mixed into the Saki threads, generally has the word "tanoshii" in the subject of OP post), you can also ask people for stuff in those in times when the /jp/ thread isn't active. They mostly talk about bullshit, but there are still helpful people hanging out.

And like >>10497659 said, it'll be OK if you just understand Furiten by watching the vid. You can return to it later, after you've started understanding the game better.

[Anonymous No.]

Can someone explain how the author deduced those waits?
This shit is driving me insane. What must have the hand looked like if the 9m and 8s are late discards? How the hell do you determine the wait is for 69s just from the late discard of 8s?

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>>10497834
I'll try. Terminal discards mean he's waiting for middle tiles. But about that 8s, absolutely no idea how he could decide those 6s and 9s. I'm thinking about 568s, which means the wait is 4s or 7s.

Anyway, what handbook is that? Kinda curious about that.

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>>10497834
Okay, well a taatsu is two or more tiles that can form a set. A taatsu like 788s is versatile since it can become either a sequence like 789 or a triplet of 888. That's why these shapes are usually prioritised over other taatsu, and therefore the shape can be surmised from when a tile is discarded.

As for the 9m, that looks like urasuji (or "back vein", as it's called in Akagi) for a 678 shape.

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>>10497852
>a taatsu is two or more tiles that can form a set
Actually let me clarify this. According to the terminology list on Osamuko, a taatsu is:
>A tile pattern that can be turned into a Shun tsu with one more tile. For example, 46 can be completed with a 5.

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>>10497852
Huh, that makes more sense than mine. Thanks for the info.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10497851
A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win
>>10497852
Thanks. That really cleared things up.

[Anonymous No.]

This just was my winning hand, but I don't understand which yaku I fullfilled. Can anyone tell me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10499015
Pinfu.

[Anonymous No.]

It's like I'm some kind of girl.

[Anonymous No.]

Am I the only one who thinks Tenhou is way too stressful?

[Anonymous No.]

first time for me

[Anonymous No.]

Just started mahjong, Playing some bots to get the hang of the rules and everything and then this happens. I was so very close. I'm sorry Koizumi, I'm so sorry.

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>>10502079
Two things. Firstly, riichi with a yakuman is generally a bad idea since it doesn't raise the value of your hand and it calls attention to you, so other players are more likely to start playing defensively to avoid dealing in. Secondly, all four of the tile you're waiting on, pei 北, have already been discarded. There are no longer any tiles available for you to win with.

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>>10502087

Yeah I knew it was when I saw the last North Wind get discarded and just Riichi'd for giggles. Still shattered I couldn't complete it.

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>>10502087
No, if it's a suuankou, it's great to riichi.

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>>10502130
>generally
The main reason people riichi with suuankou is because it's usually not suuankou by ron, and in that case you may as well raise the hand's value as much as you can.

[Anonymous No.]

Does having a higher rank give you an aura of fear that affects the other players?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10502365
Yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10502365
It is slightly intimidating, but I wouldn't say it necessarily affects them. Sometimes I might be matched up against a guy with a rating of 2000 or so and I'll just think "it'd be cool if I could beat him".

[Anonymous No.]

This game is so unnecessarily complicated I'm amazed there are more than 10 people in the world who play it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10502365
Unranked NoName players are more intimidating. You never know what they're going to do.

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>>10502510
>play with NoName
>they dc halfway
ffs