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Akroma

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Bay12 Mahjong
« on: September 15, 2011, 06:53:00 am »

since it has become kinda boring to always play against random people on the net, I tried I'd take a look if perhaps the people of bay12 would be interested in playing riichi mahjong.


What is Mahjong:


Mahjong is a tile-based gamble, which for the lack of better words, can be compared to poker, with 13 cards in your hand.
Using strategy and luck, the players take turns trying to form hands that fullfil the conditions for winning and make some points at that.


The rules of the game seem rather complicated and confusing at the first glance. Yes, they scare most new players away.
However, I assure you, the actual GAMEPLAY rules are very simple. It usualy only takes a try or two to understand them.


these rules can be found here:
http://mahjongtime.com/mahjong-japanese-rules.html


or with fancy media:
http://mahjongtime.com/demonew.html


What was that about scoring again ?


The complete scoring rules can be found here:

http://www.ofb.net/~whuang/ugcs/gp/mahjong/mahjong.html


as these are pretty complicated, always feel free to sue handy tools, such as this
http://jbcs.info/Mahjong/hand/calculator.html
or dont use them. the website we will be using calculates the score automaticaly anyway.


the only thing that you need to know that in order to complete a hand, you will need at least one yaku.
yaku are combinations which determine the value of your hand. usualy the more the better, but you have to make sure that you have at LEAST one of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Mahjong_yaku#List_of_yaku


I have seen many beginners who were just focusing on gathering combinations (chis and pons. if you have read the rules by now, you will understand), without focusing on getting even a single yaku. they were very confused and angry as to why they were not allowed to finish their hand.




And how will we play this?


For easy play, we will be using the flash-based client Tenhou. No need to download any programms (except possibly flash)


The lobby we will be using is http://tenhou.net/0/?L7447


do not be confused by the fact that the entire thing is japanese. To play the game, you dont have to be able to read.
All you need is the info on how to login:
http://arcturus.su/tenhou/login.html
The info which button means which game:
http://arcturus.su/tenhou/lobbies-games.html
and a little bit about the gameplay:
http://arcturus.su/tenhou/gameplay.html


consider all of these links luxury. I started playing on tenhou without them. And hey, I made it anyway.




But Akroma, with whom shall I play, and when ?


For the sake of simple player-finding, I will gather a list of all those who are interested, including their time-zones. With a little luck, we will gather enough players from europe, the USA and australia to cover most timezones, so nobody will have to get up at 5 am to play mahjong with the others.


Once the list is sizable enough, anyone who wishes to play can simply send out PMs to players in convenient time-zones and call them to the lobby. At the beginning, I will be doing that a lot, to introduce as many players as possible, but keep in mind you guys do not HAVE to wait for me to invite you. Feel free to send out invites whenever you please.


Keep in mind that while 4 players are ideal, tenhou supports 3-player games



Will we be keeping a score, to grow our e-peen ?


At the end of a session, the final scores will be displayed, and right next to them are blue and red numbers. those are perfect for keeping score. At the end of a game, it would be very nice if someone would post them, so I can add them to the list.










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Akroma               GMT+1            00
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Re: Bay12 Mahjong
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2011, 09:36:50 am »

I'm in for a game, probably tonight.  I'm GMT-4 so that's a bit off from you but it's Friday anyway.  I can't play right now because I'll be leaving soon.
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Re: Bay12 Mahjong
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2011, 09:38:52 am »

always feel free to sue handy tools,
Yay lawsuits.

Also, trying to understand the game a bit better. Once I'm back home this evening. Or something.
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Re: Bay12 Mahjong
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2011, 04:34:49 pm »

OH hey I just played my first game and somehow managed to not fuck up completely.
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Re: Bay12 Mahjong
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2011, 04:39:31 pm »

I've been trying on that site.  It's really fast-paced argh.  I need to learn how to discard within 5 seconds.
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Re: Bay12 Mahjong
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2011, 04:47:14 pm »

I need to learn the numbers of the character tiles :V
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Re: Bay12 Mahjong
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2011, 05:43:23 am »

oh hey, suddenly replies


I had some problems with the character tiles too at the beginning
what I did was simply google for a picture of the tiles, where they are in order, then have it open next to my game
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Re: Bay12 Mahjong
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2013, 10:50:38 pm »

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Re: Bay12 Mahjong
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2013, 12:33:17 am »

GMT+8, JFF.

Which set of rules are you guys playing? ari-ari /w 3 red tiles?