Trust me it's not as hard as you think. I got so overwhelmed doing Yakuza Kiwami but I got all of the requirements within 3-5 hours of play split into 2 days and it ended up being extremely fun when you know how to play
@@DeathfromUav If you're on Yakuza Kiwami 1 you don't need to beat hard table you need to fet rank 1. But trust me it took me 1 week to finish all chinese games & Mahjong. You need to really get used to whats best to discard and follow and remember some repeating things thay the AI does then its easy game just matter of time
@@donna-lg5cp lol but I wanted to believe!!! Even if she is just translating, she’s still damn good at her job! Translating that fast and smooth is no small feat
@@BlazerT48 same here Yakuza 0 damn that full straight completion point but damn if I didn't end up getting into it... Mahjong is actually pretty damn cool
Don't need to know anything about this game. Us Chinese play it just to gamble. And the rules are insanely complex. Some people may say its easy to play, but if you want to win money, you need to learn all the money winning tiles combination and also how to win in high level plays.
@@kennyljs Its not TOO complicated, its just that there are so many variations depending on the region. I learned to play Mahjong in Shanghai and then tried it one time in Beijing and it was totally different.
@@kennyljs It's not complex. All you want to do is get consecutive numbers or three-of-a-kinds (or four-of-a-kinds). Better combos get better points. I summed it up in two sentences.
Imo I think this showed up for me because I've been looking stuff up for Yakuza Kiwami. One of the minigames has several checklists for simple mahjong.
That moment when the world champion says "更重要的是运气". There you have it. He's polite enough to say he doesn't think he's got the skills, but he's being realistic.
@Aidan Yeah but in poker there's betting, through which you can kinda read deep into your opponent to see what he's got, and even win a lost hand if you pull a bluff. In mahjong if you don't play well and you don't get good tiles, you're dead, no matter what you do. A poker champion would never say that luck is what's most important. So no, it's not like poker.
This is well filmed and with excellent commentary. Interestingly, very few discards were picked up. This is the first tournament game I've watched, I expected it to be much much faster but this almost felt like chess or at least poker.
It’s the final if they pick up discards it will show their hand and lose their concealed points and disqualify them from other hands and also give their opponent the opportunity to figure out what they have in their hand. Not a good idea to steal at this level unless they actively think they are blocking someone’s tile they estimate they need. It was a good game though
There's a superstition about the 13 terminals. It's considered the "least lucky" hand because you can't do anything with the hand. It's said that people who win that hand will be cursed with bad luck for the rest of their lives. So, I suppose that's one more reason why it takes guts to play it.
Here's a basic rundown from what I learned playing mahjong. You get 13 tiles at the beginning of play. There are two ways to win - by having all doubles or by having 4 triples and one double. If you look at their tiles you can see they're kind of 'numbered'. They also look different. Some are like spots like dominos, some are up and down lines. These represent the type and number - think of cards with numbers and suits. So to win, you need all doubles, that means two of the same tile, or 4 triples of the same suit and one double - this would be like having cards A 2 3 diamonds, J Q K spades, 2 3 4 clubs, 5 6 7 clubs, and a pair of whatever, let's just say 7 7 hearts. You can win by picking up the 14th tile to complete your set which you see the players taking turns or by taking it from another player. Imaging in cards you needed the king of hearts to complete a royal flush and someone throws it away, you can take it to win the game. Each player takes turn picking up a tile and discarding a tile. You need to be careful because certain tiles will become hotter as the game goes along - meaning a higher chance someone needs it to win. If you discard it, they will take it and win with it. There are a few other rules involved that come naturally with play. For example, if you have two of the same tile and someone throws that same tile away, you can 'peng' it which means you lay down your two tiles, add their tile to those three, and discard another. This is why you may see players having sets of tiles that seem to get smaller. There's also 'gang' which is when you have three of a tile in your hand and someone throws the 4th (there are only 4 of every tile) you can take it, add it to your three, but instead of discarding another tile you pick one up from the back (sometimes rules use a dice to determine which tile you pick up). Some locations have varying rules. In some places for example, if you have 1 and 3 and someone throws down 2, you can 'chi' which means "eat" the tile. It's the same principle as 'peng', just instead of adding a third of the same tile, you're taking a tile that sits between your numbers. This may sound confusing but once you play a few times it becomes insanely easy and really fun. Word of warning though - do NOT play for money. The issue with this game is it's an insane form of gambling which is different to most gambling games I know. You don't pay to play, or pay a particular number that you choose like in poker where you only play/win with the chips you put in, but instead Mahjong has 'combos'. These combos lead to the loser having to pay out more. To give you an example, there's a tile combo called dragon which is when you have 1 - 9 of the same suit. There's one called Hong Qi piao piao or Red Flag, which is when you have the 4 'zhong' symbols and the 4 square symbols. There are other crazy combos that will absolutely have your wallet empty. The other reason this form of gambling is dangerous is because it is very easy to cheat or have 2 or 3 people 'gang up' on one player to take their money. Imagine in poker you were playing against 5 friends all determined to take your money and they intentionally fold good hands or find ways to move chips around to each other. All in all, it's a very entertaining game and everyone should play it.
Seriously there are better places to read up on how to play, and the many regional variants: Hong Kong, Chinese, Japanese (richi), Singaporean, and Western (American) to name a few. The origins of the game are legendary, and depending on whose version you ascribe to, itʻs no wonder players gamble to make it interesting.
You don't yell out the silly ass Kan and Pong and chows. You yell out the names of your winning hand. Fancy ones like Thirteen Orphans. Nine Gates of Heavens. But let's face it, those are never ever going to happen against a good player. You will probably end up yelling Prevailing Wind. Blossoming Flower.
I learned to play Mahjong from my mother and it is a shame she passed away. She was a cut throat player and she rarely lost, having played at least 3x/week.
"The last hand of the grand final was played at the fast pace and it's over wow we want more...", I'm calling the cops, she had murdered all the punctuations.
I'm only used to riichi (Japanese) mahjong but I'm curious about other rulesets. It's surprising to see Suzuki Tarou playing in the finals! He's a very strong riichi player, but I didn't know he also played Chinese mahjong.
@@lastburning It is actually NOT Zung Jung as you know. The ruleset is called MCR (Mahjong Competition Rules) as three of the main rules of competition mahjong in the world. And the other two is Riichi and Bloody.😃
Not surprising since Richi is a Japan-ized version of Mandarin Chinese mahjong. During the Chinese Communist regime, mahjong was considered "subversive" so it was driven underground. Eventually the government reversed its stance, and standardized rules which are the Mahjong Competition Rules used these days.
I can feel the frustration of the commentator when the 3 Red dragons were thrown XD I felt frustrated too. But she is amazingly fast at analyzing the board and each player's hand and what they're attempting to do and whether something was a good or a bad move (b/c she sees all the tiles).
@@Damento12 I didn't say it's riichi. Read again. Edit: I mean you "mistaken" it as canton mj. That means you had absolutely zero clue of what's actually going on in the video. So, no offence.
I leaned how to play at a young age from my dad. He never arranged his tiles. I asked him why and he said that in parlors, people sometimes cheat by having people sit behind and giving signals, so,that’s just how I learned to play. I got so used to looking at it that way. I do put tiles on the end for the ones that I need to win.
Akagi took place a couple of years after WW2, so maybe back then the chips were smaller but also easier to cheat with. Looks like the game went through plenty of evolutions, but I wonder if there are still smaller Mahjong chips somewhere?
@@thewanderingwriter4448 chips? Do you mean tiles? Hong Kong mahjong still uses small tiles and I'm not sure about other variants but my local variant comes in varying sizes to choose from. There are tilesets that are even smaller than the standard size (mini tiles lol)
@@yopin7026 Right! Tiles! Sorry about calling them chips. On the subject of tile size, which do you prefer - big or small? And has there been anyone caught cheating with small tiles these days?
Japanese tiles are smaller than Chinese tiles and the rules are slightly different. Well, no matter the version you're playing, you probably won't pay either blood unless you're named Akagi or Washizu 😂
@Xavian Stormfang This looks very very similar to Japanese Mahjong though? Riichi seems to have more rules; the Riichi where you can call it if you have one tile left that you need, the Dora tile, and the Winds having importance. But otherwise the part about making sets, stealing tiles, and so on, seems the same.
Wait, how is China and Taiwan represented here as separate nations? Isn't that like, a massive drama and huge political wild fire in China for the past like, 50+ years? The whole, Taiwan doesn't exist its just more China blahblah no independence shit. You'd think sitting at a table with a separate entity representing Taiwan would be uhhhh, kind of against that whole mind set.
I loved playing mahjong as a kid… like 1995. This was fun to watch. Mainly because I’m surprised how well-translated everything is. It was not a very well-known game for Americans back then. So this is awesome to see. And the commentators’ reaction to breaking up their hand, “oh, what a shame,” lmao; I feel the pain. I would play this with a group of old aunties in my mom’s village during summer breaks when I went to visit. But since I didn’t speak a lick of village language, everyone just assumed I was a beginners 7 year old from the states. Little did they know I played regularly with my dad. Hohoho, won quite a few bucks from the old ladies and then later bought candy with it for the other kids in the village just to gloat. Don’t worry, I lose it all back plus change to the old ladies before I leave. My dad calls it good etiquette.
i would hate to play the announcer she knows the players so well that she knows all the country play stylus. i would be scared she would be reading my mind
Jika diDalam tournament ada penipuan..apatah lgi didalam computer... Yg peliknya...pertandingan penipu ditagkap.. Computer juga suatu pertandingan.. Tetapi kenapa pula pemain ditangkap..yg menipu diselamatkan unuk terus kayaraya Pelik betul.. Huhuhihuhu
its so nice of them to discard the tiles in front of them, when i play with my friends, they just all discard it in a messy pile at the centre, making it hard to track who discarded what.
Sinki Hui World-Series rules bear a strong resemblance to Japanese rules, and the idea of arranging discarded tiles in a straight line is one of them. Tossing unwanted tiles into one big messy pile in the centre of the desk may be fine in recreational settings but doesn't work in a high-stakes professional tournament.
Sure. Players have hands of 13 tiles each, and they try to make sequences (three consecutive number tiles), sets (three of the same tile), and pairs (two of the same tile). Different combinations earn different amounts of points. During their turn, they draw a tile from the wall, then they choose one of the 14 tiles they have to discard. A player can call a discard to form a set or a sequence, but not a pair unless they win off that discard. A qualifying hand has either four sets or sequences and a pair, seven different pairs, or thirteen terminals and honors (one of each of the 1 and 9 from each suit of number tiles, wind and dragon tiles, and one more of any of them). A player must call out their winning hand before anyone else, and at which point the hand is scored. A player may either draw the last tile they need, forcing all players to pay to the winner's score, or someone can discard it and it can be called, in which case only the discarding player pays to the winner's score.
That's Riichi Mahjong... You have to make 4 sequence or triplet + pair to win the game, but of course is not that easy cause you need to have a pattern called Yaku. When I watch that episode I was laughing and feel embarrassed at the same time with his Yaku😂😂😂
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This final is some of the most beautiful Mahjong I've ever seen played. Also, the only Mahjong I've ever seen played.
@@TKFTGuillotine
each region has their own version of mahjong. i believe that game uses the japanese version of mahjong.
i generally play hk version
siekensou77 Nah, it isn’t the japanese version because the japanese version would be more complex. For example, like a dora indicator.
lmao
“The next time I see a WNBA game, it’ll be the first time I see a WNBA game!” -Norm
The algorithm didn't bring me here, I was actively searching for intense Mahjong games.
same and i just wanted to win lol
If only these players can help finish my completion list in Yakuza 0.
Trust me it's not as hard as you think. I got so overwhelmed doing Yakuza Kiwami but I got all of the requirements within 3-5 hours of play split into 2 days and it ended up being extremely fun when you know how to play
@@heiwajima4965 im sitting on 10 hours and still cant beat the fucking hard table
@@DeathfromUav If you're on Yakuza Kiwami 1 you don't need to beat hard table you need to fet rank 1. But trust me it took me 1 week to finish all chinese games & Mahjong. You need to really get used to whats best to discard and follow and remember some repeating things thay the AI does then its easy game just matter of time
Yakuza player here. 👌
Mhajonq. Game
commentator is f**king amazing
I thought she was translating with how fast she was speaking but actually she’s just fantastic
Would love to see how she reacted to one of the really rare hands being achieved
@@ScrewedTimeLord Actually, she IS translating. The original commentator spoke Cantonese. :)
@@donna-lg5cp lol but I wanted to believe!!! Even if she is just translating, she’s still damn good at her job! Translating that fast and smooth is no small feat
She is also an auctioneer
I feel like my grandma can beat all these players
Same
User name checks out
Same🤣
I love the fact this commentator makes little personnal comments on them x')
28:45 "Suzuki keeps the red dragon SOMEHOW, it's just his style.."
After learning and playing mahjong with my family, I can finally understand what’s going on! I feel so powerful!!!
You are like a mythical god or creature!
I just learned over this past weekend. I feel like I'm ready for a world championship match 😊
Well... TH-cam algorythm brought me here just because I was learning mahjong and guides for the Yakuza mahjong minigame...
same... the goddamn mahjong is my nightmare
@@BlazerT48 same here Yakuza 0 damn that full straight completion point but damn if I didn't end up getting into it... Mahjong is actually pretty damn cool
Yup, seems hopeless
yup. it was yakuza kiwami for me. riichi ippatsu and rank 1 dragon driver
This variant is called Zung Jung btw! If you're looking for the mahjong in Yakuza, look for Riichi.
TH-cam algorithm
2016: no
2017: nope
2018: wait
2019: not yet
2020, in the middle of a pandemic at 2 am: NOW NOW NOW PUT IT IN THE RECOMMENDATIONS!!
Yup
Yeah u cute
🤗
i love you! 😉😘
I literally searched for it and I'm not even Chinese
I have no idea what's going on. This was on my recommended list, go home TH-cam, you're drunk.
Don't need to know anything about this game. Us Chinese play it just to gamble. And the rules are insanely complex. Some people may say its easy to play, but if you want to win money, you need to learn all the money winning tiles combination and also how to win in high level plays.
@@kennyljs Richii mahjong (the Japanese variant) is the trickiest of all with all different sorts of rules and variations.
@@kennyljs Its not TOO complicated, its just that there are so many variations depending on the region. I learned to play Mahjong in Shanghai and then tried it one time in Beijing and it was totally different.
@@kennyljs It's not complex. All you want to do is get consecutive numbers or three-of-a-kinds (or four-of-a-kinds). Better combos get better points. I summed it up in two sentences.
Imo I think this showed up for me because I've been looking stuff up for Yakuza Kiwami. One of the minigames has several checklists for simple mahjong.
That moment when the world champion says "更重要的是运气". There you have it. He's polite enough to say he doesn't think he's got the skills, but he's being realistic.
@Aidan Yeah but in poker there's betting, through which you can kinda read deep into your opponent to see what he's got, and even win a lost hand if you pull a bluff. In mahjong if you don't play well and you don't get good tiles, you're dead, no matter what you do. A poker champion would never say that luck is what's most important. So no, it's not like poker.
@@amodelchucrutdisagree. There is also bluff and defence in mahjong. What players say about the game is more because of the culture difference here.
Those tiles look tasty.
Kuli24 chowder
Thought I was the only one
XD same
It would be easy to just make Tofu Mahjong pieces, lmao.
Funny you said that. A friend of mine made rice desserts that look like mahjong tiles just because he thought mahjong tiles look sweet.
That girl know what she's saying 👏
Like rapid fire she is shooting out them facts.
yep talk to fast like a dj
She made a table top game sound so exciting.
I keep needing to translate what she's saying to the Chinese terms i'm used to.
She has bad diction tho
@@chorizoman5615 try speaking chinese we'll see how your diction is
AKAGI BROUGHT ME HERE
best anime
me too haha
No glass tiles
No buy
same
Lol for real fam.
The genius who descended into darkness brought me here
Me too
NANTOKA NAREEEEE
Pon! Kan! Chi! Furiten tsumo!
Ishikawa san
Akagi
This is well filmed and with excellent commentary.
Interestingly, very few discards were picked up. This is the first tournament game I've watched, I expected it to be much much faster but this almost felt like chess or at least poker.
It’s the final if they pick up discards it will show their hand and lose their concealed points and disqualify them from other hands and also give their opponent the opportunity to figure out what they have in their hand.
Not a good idea to steal at this level unless they actively think they are blocking someone’s tile they estimate they need.
It was a good game though
What a madman, playing 13 terminals in grand finals
well he had many tiles to make 13 terminals, too many to discard already so might as well
There’s nothing else he could do with that starting hand. That was worth a shot.
Was he going for the Thirteen Orphans? If so, that would put a huge hurt in the opposing players' scores.
@@mynintendogamingfeed5208 exactly, just in chinese mahjong terminology it's just thirteen terminals, not kokushi musou like in riichi mahjonh
There's a superstition about the 13 terminals. It's considered the "least lucky" hand because you can't do anything with the hand. It's said that people who win that hand will be cursed with bad luck for the rest of their lives. So, I suppose that's one more reason why it takes guts to play it.
where the fuck am i?
This is exactly what I want to watch at 2:00 in the morning. Thanks youtube for recommending me this!
Honestly i have no idea how mahjong works but it's still satisfying to watch
Here's a basic rundown from what I learned playing mahjong.
You get 13 tiles at the beginning of play.
There are two ways to win - by having all doubles or by having 4 triples and one double. If you look at their tiles you can see they're kind of 'numbered'. They also look different. Some are like spots like dominos, some are up and down lines. These represent the type and number - think of cards with numbers and suits. So to win, you need all doubles, that means two of the same tile, or 4 triples of the same suit and one double - this would be like having cards A 2 3 diamonds, J Q K spades, 2 3 4 clubs, 5 6 7 clubs, and a pair of whatever, let's just say 7 7 hearts.
You can win by picking up the 14th tile to complete your set which you see the players taking turns or by taking it from another player. Imaging in cards you needed the king of hearts to complete a royal flush and someone throws it away, you can take it to win the game.
Each player takes turn picking up a tile and discarding a tile. You need to be careful because certain tiles will become hotter as the game goes along - meaning a higher chance someone needs it to win. If you discard it, they will take it and win with it.
There are a few other rules involved that come naturally with play. For example, if you have two of the same tile and someone throws that same tile away, you can 'peng' it which means you lay down your two tiles, add their tile to those three, and discard another. This is why you may see players having sets of tiles that seem to get smaller. There's also 'gang' which is when you have three of a tile in your hand and someone throws the 4th (there are only 4 of every tile) you can take it, add it to your three, but instead of discarding another tile you pick one up from the back (sometimes rules use a dice to determine which tile you pick up).
Some locations have varying rules. In some places for example, if you have 1 and 3 and someone throws down 2, you can 'chi' which means "eat" the tile. It's the same principle as 'peng', just instead of adding a third of the same tile, you're taking a tile that sits between your numbers.
This may sound confusing but once you play a few times it becomes insanely easy and really fun. Word of warning though - do NOT play for money. The issue with this game is it's an insane form of gambling which is different to most gambling games I know. You don't pay to play, or pay a particular number that you choose like in poker where you only play/win with the chips you put in, but instead Mahjong has 'combos'. These combos lead to the loser having to pay out more. To give you an example, there's a tile combo called dragon which is when you have 1 - 9 of the same suit. There's one called Hong Qi piao piao or Red Flag, which is when you have the 4 'zhong' symbols and the 4 square symbols. There are other crazy combos that will absolutely have your wallet empty. The other reason this form of gambling is dangerous is because it is very easy to cheat or have 2 or 3 people 'gang up' on one player to take their money. Imagine in poker you were playing against 5 friends all determined to take your money and they intentionally fold good hands or find ways to move chips around to each other.
All in all, it's a very entertaining game and everyone should play it.
Thank you very much
Damn that was an amazing comparison and explanation, especially for those who are more familiar with poker or card games. Thank you 🙏🏼
Seriously there are better places to read up on how to play, and the many regional variants: Hong Kong, Chinese, Japanese (richi), Singaporean, and Western (American) to name a few. The origins of the game are legendary, and depending on whose version you ascribe to, itʻs no wonder players gamble to make it interesting.
THANK YOU! 😊✌️💚
Too long didnt read
0:45 slap
KAAAAAN!!!! PONNNN!!!!! ROONNN!!!!! RICCCHHIII!!!!! (slams tiles of mahjong everywhere!
Carlorozy Clemente That's Japanese Richii Mahjong, this is the HK version... Lemme guess, you've recently watched Saki
haha lol! I literally never cared with the terms. Watched akagi actually :]
Carlorozy Clemente Akagiiii who descended into darkness, who'd later become known as the Mahjong Legend❤
You don't yell out the silly ass Kan and Pong and chows.
You yell out the names of your winning hand.
Fancy ones like Thirteen Orphans. Nine Gates of Heavens.
But let's face it, those are never ever going to happen against a good player.
You will probably end up yelling Prevailing Wind. Blossoming Flower.
Every time you yell out a winning hand check your opponents' faces as more and more fans start stacking on top of each other.
I learned to play Mahjong from my mother and it is a shame she passed away. She was a cut throat player and she rarely lost, having played at least 3x/week.
I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure she was an amazing player!
may she rest in peace 🙏🕊
may she rest in peace.
"The last hand of the grand final was played at the fast pace and it's over wow we want more...", I'm calling the cops, she had murdered all the punctuations.
I'm only used to riichi (Japanese) mahjong but I'm curious about other rulesets. It's surprising to see Suzuki Tarou playing in the finals! He's a very strong riichi player, but I didn't know he also played Chinese mahjong.
This ruleset is called Zung Jung if you want to look it up.
@@lastburning It is actually NOT Zung Jung as you know. The ruleset is called MCR (Mahjong Competition Rules) as three of the main rules of competition mahjong in the world. And the other two is Riichi and Bloody.😃
Not surprising since Richi is a Japan-ized version of Mandarin Chinese mahjong. During the Chinese Communist regime, mahjong was considered "subversive" so it was driven underground. Eventually the government reversed its stance, and standardized rules which are the Mahjong Competition Rules used these days.
牌デッカ！
Yo that commentator was vicious after that first round lmaooo
i dunno why im watching this at 2 am when i have tons of homework and a quiz in 6 hours
It's okay just quit school and become a Mahjong Pro.
Procrastination
I can feel the frustration of the commentator when the 3 Red dragons were thrown XD I felt frustrated too. But she is amazingly fast at analyzing the board and each player's hand and what they're attempting to do and whether something was a good or a bad move (b/c she sees all the tiles).
the commentator might be added after during the editing. Really impressive commentating nonetheless.
Commentator is likely reading a script
I keep re-watching this to learn. The narrator is beginning to haunt me.
50:44 日本のみんなが見たいシーン
Yakuza 0 brought me here
-鷹船長-Spirit of the hawk Same dude
Who?
Yakuza Kiwami 2 brought me here
Why nobody is screaming RON!
Is because there is no term in the rule set used
Because it's HK mahjong, so Ron isn't a thing.
@@Damento12 It's not. They're playing riichi hands without riichi and dora.
@@derpingdead Then it's not richi lol. But I was mistaken in calling it HK www.mahjongtime.com/Mahjong-WSOM-Scoring-2.html
@@Damento12 I didn't say it's riichi. Read again.
Edit: I mean you "mistaken" it as canton mj. That means you had absolutely zero clue of what's actually going on in the video. So, no offence.
I'd be totally lost without the commentator since they all order their hands differently, they play faster than i can see what they have!
For the qualifier they have to beat the Yakuza 0 mahjong completions in two minutes.
Everyone knows that’s hell to do
What is that?
@@cajaha Yakuza 0 is a videogame. It has mahjong in it as a minigame
Kenneth Shiro i was just waiting for someone to shout riichi and the flute starts to play
Kevin Volchok Wrong type of Mahjong
I’m trying to learn Mahjong and it is a fascinating game. I love the tactics involved
Kiryu, Yagami, Tanimura and Majima playing
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON
When you watch at the TH-cam algorithm, the TH-cam algorithm watchs it back.
In the Philippines, we call the "dot" tiles "balls". So not "one dot", it'd be "one ball" there :)
Bamboo = stick
I'm used to the Japanese pronunciations where they are called pins, so it'd be 'one pin'.
@@jeffreyjohnmartinez4341 Yup!
The mahjong table is the best invention in the past 50 years.
Championships like this exist???? SIGN ME UP
39:55 "Players may have slippery hands from sweating."
Lol this gave such a laugh
Lol hwat a sweat!
The announcer was excellent.
i wonder if it was done live
Stellar comments and play by play, much better than any non-pro hold'em commentators with their random talk. Great job.
the commentary obviously was not live,also not her own commentary,she was just reading someone elses commentary and was still SO bad at it.
@Rusty I hear Ben stein is up to be her replacement soon :)
@Rusty Well duh brain dead idiot. What's the Announcer supposed to do else?
No TH-cam algorithm, no..
I never play mahjong, don't know the rules.
I'm can't even read chinese..
It's Japanese I believe.
@@sarika3689 It's both.
I leaned how to play at a young age from my dad. He never arranged his tiles. I asked him why and he said that in parlors, people sometimes cheat by having people sit behind and giving signals, so,that’s just how I learned to play. I got so used to looking at it that way. I do put tiles on the end for the ones that I need to win.
It's quite different from that of Akagi.
The tiles are big, their designs are kind of simple, and nobody bets his blood.
Tiles are big to prevent cheating. But I think that the designs are more elaborate imo
Akagi took place a couple of years after WW2, so maybe back then the chips were smaller but also easier to cheat with. Looks like the game went through plenty of evolutions, but I wonder if there are still smaller Mahjong chips somewhere?
@@thewanderingwriter4448 chips? Do you mean tiles? Hong Kong mahjong still uses small tiles and I'm not sure about other variants but my local variant comes in varying sizes to choose from. There are tilesets that are even smaller than the standard size (mini tiles lol)
@@yopin7026 Right! Tiles! Sorry about calling them chips. On the subject of tile size, which do you prefer - big or small? And has there been anyone caught cheating with small tiles these days?
Japanese tiles are smaller than Chinese tiles and the rules are slightly different. Well, no matter the version you're playing, you probably won't pay either blood unless you're named Akagi or Washizu 😂
I want to play mahjong just so that I can slap a tile on the table and shout "tsumo" like Kiryu-san. 😁
@Xavian Stormfang when they shout something and slam a tile on the table it means I won.
@Xavian Stormfang This looks very very similar to Japanese Mahjong though? Riichi seems to have more rules; the Riichi where you can call it if you have one tile left that you need, the Dora tile, and the Winds having importance. But otherwise the part about making sets, stealing tiles, and so on, seems the same.
*ZAWA* *ZAWA*
Those cards look so... how do I say? Delicious!!! 😂 I want to feel them, clank them together and maybe even bite one 😂🙏 forgive me
The clear ones really look like candy or jello 😂
Wait, I can’t be the only one who did know there was a World Series of Mahjong?
I thought it was just a computer game
That half a million prize pool looks less impressive when you convert it
外国人Mリーガー誕生してほしいなあ
Am I the only one for searching "mahjong tournament"?
The speaker on this video speaking so fast only herself can hear every world said by herself. No brainer. I hated it and stop watching.
no idea how they play it i just know the game on pc with just matching them
Visiting here after completing the Mahjong Completion Requirements for Yakuza 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2.
Same :p
Wait, how is China and Taiwan represented here as separate nations? Isn't that like, a massive drama and huge political wild fire in China for the past like, 50+ years? The whole, Taiwan doesn't exist its just more China blahblah no independence shit. You'd think sitting at a table with a separate entity representing Taiwan would be uhhhh, kind of against that whole mind set.
I just starded to learn mahjong and this pops up
I loved playing mahjong as a kid… like 1995. This was fun to watch. Mainly because I’m surprised how well-translated everything is. It was not a very well-known game for Americans back then. So this is awesome to see. And the commentators’ reaction to breaking up their hand, “oh, what a shame,” lmao; I feel the pain.
I would play this with a group of old aunties in my mom’s village during summer breaks when I went to visit. But since I didn’t speak a lick of village language, everyone just assumed I was a beginners 7 year old from the states. Little did they know I played regularly with my dad. Hohoho, won quite a few bucks from the old ladies and then later bought candy with it for the other kids in the village just to gloat. Don’t worry, I lose it all back plus change to the old ladies before I leave. My dad calls it good etiquette.
I can't help but to think those tiles look like cake or sweets.
i would hate to play the announcer she knows the players so well that she knows all the country play stylus.
i would be scared she would be reading my mind
Played in Yakuza game and now I'm actually interested and have fun playing outside of Yakuza game
Jika diDalam tournament ada penipuan..apatah lgi didalam computer...
Yg peliknya...pertandingan penipu ditagkap..
Computer juga suatu pertandingan..
Tetapi kenapa pula pemain ditangkap..yg menipu diselamatkan unuk terus kayaraya
Pelik betul..
Huhuhihuhu
15 minutes in and my heartrate increases by 20 beats per minute
たろうさんw
Some of their plays at the start were really defensive.
Where are the thunders and the flowers and the massiv thunderstorm and the TSUMO RINSHAN KAIHO!!!!! in flames?
Tsumo-nya!
Riichi!
Ippatsu!
Pinfu!
Dora!
Dora-go!
Ura-dora!
99999 points, enjoy being in novice forever.
捨牌の並べ方で何か差を感じる4人
50:51 TAKATYAN
thanks to yakuza series, I can understand this video a little bit about what is going on...
I learned how to play mahjong only for Yakuza's minigame
Against all the odds.
？？サッパリ分からん＾＾
スズキさんは知ってます
No idea how I ended up here.... I don't even know how to play....
え、この打ち筋でトップの人たちなの？
太郎さん以外やばくねーか
日本の麻雀とルール違うからとかなのか？
雀力じゃ比べ物にならない。たろうさんが断トツ。
向こうの人たちはめちゃくちゃ三味線引いてる。
つまりズルしてる。
Who now loves mahjong because of Yakuza?
Me
麻雀
I went to mahjong classes to learn it in full because of Yakuza😅 100% worth it
I watched a video on how to play this game. Now I'm watching people play and I have no idea what the hell is going on.
Macao was transferred to the PRC and they allow Taiwanese flags? Based!
We need some instant replays for the fast pace action.
its so nice of them to discard the tiles in front of them, when i play with my friends, they just all discard it in a messy pile at the centre, making it hard to track who discarded what.
Maybe it's a rule of the tournament to referee better? We play like the messy pile in the center too with friends.
That's the rule. You will get penalty for taking a tile that you just discarded at previous turn.
Sinki Hui
World-Series rules bear a strong resemblance to Japanese rules, and the idea of arranging discarded tiles in a straight line is one of them. Tossing unwanted tiles into one big messy pile in the centre of the desk may be fine in recreational settings but doesn't work in a high-stakes professional tournament.
Japanese people be like
“you forgot to flip the Dora indicator”
How did this go in my Recommended list. WHAT 0_0
TH-cam you need to work on your algorithm dudesss and ladiessss.....
hilarious listening to the commentary in English...5 or 6 dots for a Chi....hahaha
This is so fucking hype, I love it
Im the kind of person who doesnt know ANYTHING about mahjong and still randomly watches 1 hour of it :D
Santtu Jormala 😂😂😂😂true
Lol same. I’m trying to learn but don’t have enough understanding to get their tactics
It's like Gin Rummy, but with tiles instead.
牌でっか
I watched 1 video of Kiryu playing Mahjong in Yakuza Kiwami, and the algorithm shows me this...
When he pulled that third 🀄:
😂😂😂
🀄🀄🀄
😂😂😂
hurts like hell man. Pairs of honors feel bad enough to discard, a triplet is something else
If you know what's going on in the game 👇
Sure. Players have hands of 13 tiles each, and they try to make sequences (three consecutive number tiles), sets (three of the same tile), and pairs (two of the same tile). Different combinations earn different amounts of points. During their turn, they draw a tile from the wall, then they choose one of the 14 tiles they have to discard. A player can call a discard to form a set or a sequence, but not a pair unless they win off that discard. A qualifying hand has either four sets or sequences and a pair, seven different pairs, or thirteen terminals and honors (one of each of the 1 and 9 from each suit of number tiles, wind and dragon tiles, and one more of any of them). A player must call out their winning hand before anyone else, and at which point the hand is scored. A player may either draw the last tile they need, forcing all players to pay to the winner's score, or someone can discard it and it can be called, in which case only the discarding player pays to the winner's score.
I just wanna 100% Yakuza 0
I did \o/
I come here after "Kamisama ni hatta" episode 4
I still didn't understand this game rule
That's Riichi Mahjong... You have to make 4 sequence or triplet + pair to win the game, but of course is not that easy cause you need to have a pattern called Yaku. When I watch that episode I was laughing and feel embarrassed at the same time with his Yaku😂😂😂
This video was one of my recommended videos for some reason......and thank GOD it was!!!!
No representative from Philippines??? 😎
with how we play, unlikely.
saki brought me here
たろうさんとたかはるｗ
Damn I was rooting for that guy's 13 unique wonders!
十三腰!
Had he achieved it, a huge hurt would drop on the opposing players' scores.
Maaaan.... What is this table??? Can't they find a table where at least the walls can be put straight?
たろうだけ河めっちゃ綺麗にするやん
there is an inner monologues of the bystander but no one chain smoking 3 packs per hour...
unacceptable ...
UNACCEPTABLE !!