I swear my grandmother taught me how to play this game when I was 7and I was a fucking legend at it but my grandmother took this game very seriously. Watching this video gave me flashbacks of disapproving glares from my grandmother whenever I messed up. I cried twice during this video.
This is hilarious...My mid 90 year old neighbor has a group at her house...at least twice a week to play...Today we have a blizzard here...they were still there!
Nannyk B lol. I worked at a beach club a couple of summers. And every Monday, rain or shine, it was mahjong tournaments. You could not stop these women from playing. You walk on the court and all you here is “3bam” “4 crack” and so on. I even recommended the club host an actual tournament but they were too incompetent.
It's the same for me with my parents and grandparents, but with bridge. I'm not a legend but I'd get good at it if they'd let me figure shit out for myself. Instead I get a 45 minute lecture and like 15 minutes of actual game time
Here are the rules and how the game works: -Each player starts with 13 tiles. -In order to win they need one pair and four melds(three of the same tile, four of the same tile, or a straight). -When its your turn you can pick up a tile from the drawing pile and add it to your hand or discarding it. however if you keep it you have to discard another tile because you have the max of only 13 tiles. -when you discard the tile a person can pick it up in order to create a meld, but they have to show it to everybody since they picked it up from the discard. If somebody is confused comment below
The video says 4x melds and a pair. So correct me if I'm wrong; 3x of the same 4x of the same 3x in same suite and sequence Total: 10x Then a pair of any Total: 12x That leaves me with only 1x more left as you can only have 13x at any one time. So how does the 4th need for into this?
Mark Tan you can either have a pong ( meld of three) or a kong ( meld of four) so if you already have a pong (x3) then draw a fourth, then you declare a kong which means you get an extra draw on your go, effectively drawing two tiles during one go. Hence your mahjong is 15 tiles which gives you extra points. Easy
This is the second video I have visited on how to play mahjong. Both start with 'Mahjong is easy to learn'. Now I need to find two more liars to play the game..
I came here for yakuza 0. I failed and gave up. I returned for kiwami. I failed again. Then I came back for kiwami 2, and I failed yet again. I returned once more for 6, and guess what? I failed again. Yet I'm right back here once again for Judgement. Hopefully I'll actually learn how to play this time.
@@dracomight I learnt it for Judgment, after giving up with every previous game since Y4. I can tell you it's not so difficult as it appears, after you learn the basic mechanism. It's just bad explained in the game tutorial. I had to find some help in other online tutorial. Anyway, the golden rule for beginners is DON'T STEAL OTHERS' TILES or you can't call Riichi that's usually the first step to go out.
@@PalloneWafer I just feel like I hit a wall when I get to mahjong. No matter what I do I can't fulfill all the requirements. I can win some but there are specific hands that I can't get. I been able to learn how to play every other mini game properly but not this one.
I used to watch my great grandma play with her friends when I was between like 8 and 16 and they would potluck so I got to eat and chill. Filipino comfort foods and not a care in the world, man what a time wish I was a kid again. Miss my grammy. Miss her lumpia.
Lol when I was little and was living in China, there was a casino kind of area underneath out compound, where we lived. It contained lots of stuff the a swimming pool, billiards, table tennis table, and tonnes of other stuff. Me and my friend always used to go sneak at the Mahjong playing area, where kinds were strictly forbidden, and used to make pyramids and towers out of these small interesting blocks since we didn't know how to play them, obviously. The funny thing was we almost never got caught but even when we did, the manager didn't usually do much but just kick us out of the area, talking gibberish in Chinese which we didn't understand. Fun times :)
Paul Johnson It depends on what kind of mahjong you want to learn. I've tried many and now play Zung Jung exclusively. These are the rules used at The World Series of Mahjong too. Game related websites are blocked from my work computer, but should be able to find the rules easily enough online by Googeling "Alan Kwan Zung Jung" (Alan Kwan was the creator). Make sure you're getting the most current version of the rules, v3.3 (Mahjongtime.com still gives an outdated score and payment method from a previous version).
Ivan Wong American "Mah Jongg" was the first type I learned thanks to my mother-in-law. (I now prefer Alan Kwan's Zung Jung / World Series of Mahjong rules). This video does not show American "Mah Jongg". There is no such thing as "what I call" American Mah Jongg. American Mah Jongg is already defined by the NMJL (National Mah Jongg League). It inlcudes 8 Jokers and does not allow Chows, and there is no such thing as a standard winning hand (4 sets and a pair) in the game.
+Holzkohlen The basics are : you pick a tile then discards another. By echanging tiles, you form a valid hand, with generally four triplets (three of a kind or rows, in the same family) and one pair, before the three other. The validity and hand value is determined by predefined score sheets. There are other small variants in games between the different rules.. Saki is about the japanese rules, Riichi. You can find the rules here passthrough.fw-notify.net/download/676557/mahjong-europe.org/docs/riichi_EN.pdf
There are many different rules depend on which region of Asia playing the game. From HK, they used 3 pieces of dices to start off the game instead of 2. The discarded tiles don't line up by the players as they just scattered all in the middle of the table. Only the most recent tile discarded can be pick up by the next player and any players can pick up the previous tile if they have three or four of a kind to display. All the old tiles discarded cannot be pick up.
Started to watch Akagi. Thought this would help. My head's spinning. Saw some other videos that explain the game in a matter of several hours (!). What a beast of game. I don't even.
I don't know Rummy, but I usually say it's similar to Poker. The tiles are just like cards, and you're trying to make a hand. You're trying to form sets of Trips (3 of a kind, which is called "pong"), Straight ("chow"), 4-of-a kind (called "kang"), pairs, etc...
When I was a kid, i like to just stack them together to build a fortress whenever we have it in our house, I would try to make the fortress tough enough to endure me trowing tiles at it, it was fun.
My mom played it when I was little, but the American version with the cards always seemed stupid to me. By the time I got to college, I was playing it HK style...fast, with scoring sticks (money was settled later) like I play backgammon (with a doubling cube, even) or dominoes (6-love, i.e.). It's not hard to play, but, like Gin, it requires strategy and determination to play well. And yes, I play Oklahoma Gin (20 pts, 10 undercut, 100 game, double everything but boxes on spades, no laying off on gin, and complete double on schneidering [shutout] your opponent) Hollywood Scoring (3 games, but winning the first two obviates the third; otherwise, it's the difference). Learn it, and have fun!
Not difficult once you know the rules. Maybe you can practice and play with this simple MjMj Puzzle mahjong game itunes.apple.com/ca/app/mjmj-puzzle/id1078507997?mt=8 Very good for learning mahjong and lot of fun.
my aunt brought out our antique mahjong set our grandma bought in when she was still in asia, i always see them playing as a little kid, it's almost like a tradition to play. i'm youtubing everything, i'm not losing
So a winning hand has to have 4 melds and a pair, right? So the 4-of-a-kind type meld will never be in a winning hand because there aren't enough tiles (if you only have 13 plus the draw, 4 sets of 3 plus the pair take up all 14 tiles), right?
SgtSupaman : A quad counts as “three tiles”. When you call a quad, you draw a replacement tile. If you have three quads, you count that as nine tiles of your 13 tiles count.
It's longer than 1900 century. It was designed to entertain people in the royal cruise since Ming dynasty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He so it's been 600+ years.
I tried to learn some basics of shogi, so I decided to go to a shogi online server....and they destroyed me, haha. So yeah, I'll stick to Outrun and pool as well. LOL 81dojo.com/en/
To start a mahjong game, the dealer rolls the dice, then see what the number of the dice is, count in an anti-clockwise direction, in order to see who goes first, then break the tile wall by the number of the dice. And every player takes 2 tiles, 13 tiles in their hand, The dealer has 14 tiles in his/her hand.
Nice explanation. Thank you. I've known how to play for years, but I want my sisters to learn. I'll point them to this video. That being said, I still can't keep score.. I saw a book of scores once, and wow.. there are a LOT of ways to get big points. Hopefully, my younger sister can make more sense of it.. She's better with things like that, than I am. ^_^ Thanks so much for sharing!! 💗💗💗
Dude people say this is hard but wait until you see all of these game conditions in riichi (japanese) mahjong. You must have a "yaku" (a winning hand that fits some criteria) and each yaku has a certain amount of "han" (points). You can't simply win by getting 4 sets of three and a set of 2. You MUST have some kind of yaku. The easiest yaku to achieve for a beginner has to probably be "tanyao", aka "all simples". You must only have number tiles from 2 to 8. This hand has little value. Another easy one is called "riichi" basically, you cannot pon or chii anyone else's tiles for the whole game. The moment someone does this, they forfeit their chance to riichi later on. If you can manage to built any hand a tile away from winning (no matter how poor), you can declare riichi. There are dozens of different yakus. Different special tiles and combinations that I haven't mentioned either.
There is a neighbor here with more 10 people in a small apt playing dominoe or this game day and night, weekends, the problem is when they shuffle the pieces and move around the table and kicking the floor. Every 5 minutes they shuffle the pieces, it's loud, travels to neighbor's ceiling, it seems somebody is rolling the whole floor, when they have their windows open you hear them the obnoxious shuffle, you can from the street. Neighbors already called the police because the game is all day and night and every 5 minutes the shuffle. It's insane. I wonder if they got addicted and making money on the game.
This video is missing a few key pieces of information: - How to break the wall and deal. - Whether or not a Dead Wall is used. - What happens when you call Kong - do you draw a tile from the dead wall or from the live wall if the dead wall is not used. - How to declare a concealed Kong, or opting instead to conceal a Pung using 3 of the tiles and using the fourth to form a concealed Chow (though this is more advanced). - Seat winds and prevailing winds, used in every form of Mahjong. - How to score (actually the most important element). I can't find any information or detailed rules on their website, only the scoring sheet. They could do a lot to improve this.
1.What happnes when you “kang” and left with a last tile? 2. Can you only Kang when a player throw from the left of you or can you do it wherever like pong? 3. When is it aloud to pong, kang or chi? Is it right after the leader throw his/her first tile at the start of the game or is it when every one has picked up their first tile from the first draw wall and tossed their first tile?
You can pon, kan at any moment you can only chi when the discarded tile is from the person left to you... If you are left with only one tile because you used all the others to form chi, kon and pong you now obviously need a pair to win so whichever tile you have left in your hand you have to draw the identical tile, at that point you can't use any one else's tiles... Its called furiten when you are in a state where you must draw the winning tile and can't use your opponents
I think it's assumed that we know there are 144 tiles in a set and since 4 players each has 13 tiles which come up to 52 tiles, meaning 92 drawing tiles at the start?
@@pianoLee-sx9dx oh really? I just started my search on mahjong as well so I can only guess it might be a variation or some bonus sets? Best to google it 😆
It's actually well explained but no yakus were mentioned. Which are mandatory if u want to win. Just go play mahjong and u will understand just with a video u will be confused no matter how many times u watch.
When I played when I was younger, I remember my grandmother making a "flower pile" where we can substitute flowers for other tiles and we can get another tile when you kong. What is this pile? I remember counting tiles and breaking it, but how many tiles go into the flower pile?
When you "break the wall" at the start of the hand, you make a "live end" and a "dead end". You draw and play from the live end, and draw kong replacements from the dead end. Most players take flower replacements from the dead end too. Counting off tiles for the "flower pile" or "dead wall" is affected by the convention (house rule) concerning the dead wall. It's probably not too important, though.
It really is relatively simple. I've been playing for about 8 years and it's a lot of fun. But this isn't the best way to learn. I've taught many people how to play by setting the tiles up and then just walking around the table and playing each hand. It takes about 15 mins. to completely understand.
There are 2 types of people:
1) love the idea to play mahjong
2) trying to 100% yakuza
I just need to learn for a substory
@maxler 5795 Lmaoo caught me. I was just looking at the completion list and was thinking; "damn, I suck at mahjong. Welp, time for youtube".
3) wanna watch Akagi
Last thing in the completion list…
@brainbotsclipped689 4) want to read kaiji but can't understand the mahjong arc lmao
Wanted to learn it but this is so complicated. I opted for something easier and built a spaceship while finding a cure for cancer instead.
Lmao
@@angelusvastator1297 anything about yakuza or related i see you
@@frootloop3568 who cares
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It is in the same class of games as rummy. If you just want a game with friends you do not have to remember all the ways of going out.
I swear my grandmother taught me how to play this game when I was 7and I was a fucking legend at it but my grandmother took this game very seriously. Watching this video gave me flashbacks of disapproving glares from my grandmother whenever I messed up. I cried twice during this video.
This is hilarious...My mid 90 year old neighbor has a group at her house...at least twice a week to play...Today we have a blizzard here...they were still there!
Nannyk B lol. I worked at a beach club a couple of summers. And every Monday, rain or shine, it was mahjong tournaments. You could not stop these women from playing. You walk on the court and all you here is “3bam” “4 crack” and so on. I even recommended the club host an actual tournament but they were too incompetent.
Idrk Tou can try, but you could never beat my mother. My mother got first place in many countries :)
It's the same for me with my parents and grandparents, but with bridge. I'm not a legend but I'd get good at it if they'd let me figure shit out for myself. Instead I get a 45 minute lecture and like 15 minutes of actual game time
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I love how you say “the game is quite simple” and then begin to explain how fucking complicated it is.
Exactly. They go so fast. Say something one time and no explanation follows. Waste of time
Video made by people who know the game well but can't put themselves in shoes of a complete beginner.
I understood it more or less, but I am used to learning games and know how to play rummy so
Here are the rules and how the game works:
-Each player starts with 13 tiles.
-In order to win they need one pair and four melds(three of the same tile, four of the same tile, or a straight).
-When its your turn you can pick up a tile from the drawing pile and add it to your hand or discarding it. however if you keep it you have to discard another tile because you have the max of only 13 tiles.
-when you discard the tile a person can pick it up in order to create a meld, but they have to show it to everybody since they picked it up from the discard.
If somebody is confused comment below
Could you explain melds a little bit more and are there also some more rules before I dive in?
The video says 4x melds and a pair. So correct me if I'm wrong;
3x of the same
4x of the same
3x in same suite and sequence
Total: 10x
Then a pair of any
Total: 12x
That leaves me with only 1x more left as you can only have 13x at any one time.
So how does the 4th need for into this?
Mark Tan you can either have a pong ( meld of three) or a kong ( meld of four) so if you already have a pong (x3) then draw a fourth, then you declare a kong which means you get an extra draw on your go, effectively drawing two tiles during one go. Hence your mahjong is 15 tiles which gives you extra points. Easy
Huh
Do you use flowers, seasons, dragons, and winds to make a meld?
Instructions unclear . Ended up in a strip club in Connecticut
You mean Dunkin.
it does sound complicated at first but once you play a game or two the rules become pretty straightforward
Explaining the game through Rummy lol, but I don't play rummy either
Rummy is quite easy, maybe you could try and learn that before?
RUMMY IS AN ANCIENT GAME
Exactly. It’s like when you look up a word definition and the definition is another word you don’t know.
Prince Blake though I okay Mah Jong, I’ve never played Rummy either! I don’t understand why they’d make that reference.
I don't play rummy either so that explanation wasn't helpful. 😆 I think I started getting the idea though! Need to rewatch this video a few time.
How far I got in learning these rules before I got stuck:
1. Count the tiles.
Crazy Rich Asians brought me here
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Same here
No I still don't know how.
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It's surprisingly easy once you get into it. I used to play years ago and am just now reacquainting myself. Amazed how much I've forgotten.
Gaudia Certaminis same here. He didn't explain a lot.
This is the second video I have visited on how to play mahjong. Both start with 'Mahjong is easy to learn'. Now I need to find two more liars to play the game..
Shit how yakuza 0 got me here...
I share your pain.
I came here for yakuza 0. I failed and gave up. I returned for kiwami. I failed again. Then I came back for kiwami 2, and I failed yet again. I returned once more for 6, and guess what? I failed again. Yet I'm right back here once again for Judgement. Hopefully I'll actually learn how to play this time.
@@dracomight I learnt it for Judgment, after giving up with every previous game since Y4.
I can tell you it's not so difficult as it appears, after you learn the basic mechanism.
It's just bad explained in the game tutorial. I had to find some help in other online tutorial.
Anyway, the golden rule for beginners is DON'T STEAL OTHERS' TILES or you can't call Riichi that's usually the first step to go out.
@@PalloneWafer I just feel like I hit a wall when I get to mahjong. No matter what I do I can't fulfill all the requirements. I can win some but there are specific hands that I can't get. I been able to learn how to play every other mini game properly but not this one.
We're learning the game and it's a lot of fun! It's really rummy except you use these beautifully made tiles with lovely etched characters on them.
I used to watch my great grandma play with her friends when I was between like 8 and 16 and they would potluck so I got to eat and chill. Filipino comfort foods and not a care in the world, man what a time wish I was a kid again. Miss my grammy. Miss her lumpia.
Lol when I was little and was living in China, there was a casino kind of area underneath out compound, where we lived. It contained lots of stuff the a swimming pool, billiards, table tennis table, and tonnes of other stuff. Me and my friend always used to go sneak at the Mahjong playing area, where kinds were strictly forbidden, and used to make pyramids and towers out of these small interesting blocks since we didn't know how to play them, obviously. The funny thing was we almost never got caught but even when we did, the manager didn't usually do much but just kick us out of the area, talking gibberish in Chinese which we didn't understand. Fun times :)
"You now know how to play Mahjong" Ummm, not if your only knowledge of the game came from watching this video, you don't!
Sooooooo ! where to go from here ?
Paul Johnson
It depends on what kind of mahjong you want to learn. I've tried many and now play Zung Jung exclusively. These are the rules used at The World Series of Mahjong too. Game related websites are blocked from my work computer, but should be able to find the rules easily enough online by Googeling "Alan Kwan Zung Jung" (Alan Kwan was the creator). Make sure you're getting the most current version of the rules, v3.3 (Mahjongtime.com still gives an outdated score and payment method from a previous version).
This is video talks about what I like to call "American Mahjong" I play a different version.
Ivan Wong
American "Mah Jongg" was the first type I learned thanks to my mother-in-law. (I now prefer Alan Kwan's Zung Jung / World Series of Mahjong rules). This video does not show American "Mah Jongg". There is no such thing as "what I call" American Mah Jongg. American Mah Jongg is already defined by the NMJL (National Mah Jongg League). It inlcudes 8 Jokers and does not allow Chows, and there is no such thing as a standard winning hand (4 sets and a pair) in the game.
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I didn't understand anything. God damn I have to win 25k in Yakuza 2 by playing Mahjong -.-
+Holzkohlen I know how to play mahjong im 11 and im chinese I learned it from my grandpa and i play with my family
+radgirl0444 MSP nobody cares kid
+Unknown.Gamer thats not very nice.
+Unknown.Gamer i care because it's cool to learn games with culture from your grandpa. you are just jelious
+Holzkohlen The basics are : you pick a tile then discards another. By echanging
tiles, you form a valid hand, with generally four triplets (three of a
kind or rows, in the same family) and one pair, before the three other.
The validity and hand value is determined by predefined score sheets.
There are other small variants in games between the different rules..
Saki is about the japanese rules, Riichi. You can find the rules here passthrough.fw-notify.net/download/676557/mahjong-europe.org/docs/riichi_EN.pdf
Who's here cause they are learning Mahjong in Yakuza0 to get 100%?
Who else is looking this up because they have no idea what they're doing in Yakuza
Me
Me, too 🙈
There are many different rules depend on which region of Asia playing the game. From HK, they used 3 pieces of dices to start off the game instead of 2. The discarded tiles don't line up by the players as they just scattered all in the middle of the table. Only the most recent tile discarded can be pick up by the next player and any players can pick up the previous tile if they have three or four of a kind to display. All the old tiles discarded cannot be pick up.
I watch the first episode of Akagi, I get confused, and I head straight to this video... and I still don't know whats going on in Akagi.
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Started to watch Akagi. Thought this would help. My head's spinning. Saw some other videos that explain the game in a matter of several hours (!). What a beast of game. I don't even.
+Popcorn Watch One outs as well. I never knew baseball could was so tricky
Besides the idea of memorizing all the tiles, the core of the game is a lot simpler than I expected.
I don't know Rummy, but I usually say it's similar to Poker. The tiles are just like cards, and you're trying to make a hand. You're trying to form sets of Trips (3 of a kind, which is called "pong"), Straight ("chow"), 4-of-a kind (called "kang"), pairs, etc...
>Ancient Game
>19th century
+Seydaschu
Behold!
The ancient novel of old, Sherlock Holmes!
the ancient dance technique
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Fennec Besixdouze Soup dumplings aren't. Dumplings are ancient
@@fennecbesixdouze1794 It's predecessor which inspired Mahjong is much older, I believe but in the form of cards.
Well to be fair, 2 centuries is pretty old. Perhaps not like Egypt old, but yeah.
I would have to major in Mahjong with a 4-year program in order to learn this.
These little rectangles are making me hungry! They look like keylime and white chocolate cubes! Yummy!!!
I need videos like this that also go into Reach and Doman variations. Yaku, Riishii, Tsumo, Han, Fu... It's like learning a new language!
now I'm totally confused LOL
2:08 sick riichi discard
When I was a kid, i like to just stack them together to build a fortress whenever we have it in our house, I would try to make the fortress tough enough to endure me trowing tiles at it, it was fun.
My mom played it when I was little, but the American version with the cards always seemed stupid to me. By the time I got to college, I was playing it HK style...fast, with scoring sticks (money was settled later) like I play backgammon (with a doubling cube, even) or dominoes (6-love, i.e.). It's not hard to play, but, like Gin, it requires strategy and determination to play well. And yes, I play Oklahoma Gin (20 pts, 10 undercut, 100 game, double everything but boxes on spades, no laying off on gin, and complete double on schneidering [shutout] your opponent) Hollywood Scoring (3 games, but winning the first two obviates the third; otherwise, it's the difference).
Learn it, and have fun!
The Yakuza games brought me here.
Yea boy
This is like when Jake explains card wars to Finn
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ridiculously difficult to learn, but ts is so fun when u actually understand it
I was too preoccupied with all the oranges on the ground to understand what you were saying.
What is that tiles color? Looks very nice on green table mat.
what i learn from this, if you are not akagi then you can’t learn mahjong in 5 minutes.
If I had known it was so simple I would've started playing long ago. :)
I still don't understand goodbye Yakuza 100% completion
It helps when you've played mahjong solitaire for a while :) Didn't realize I was already familiar with the symbols.
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Time to try that side mission in yakuza
What set is this, I like the translucent green and numbers on it… anyone know where I can purchase one exactly like it?
perfectly clear. I didn't know how to play before and now I don't
The basics are simple enough. Some formalities that aren't important. The scoring system, however, come in many varieties and are very confusing.
One of my pet hates is people who say "It's quite simple" before going on to describe something extremely complicated
Not difficult once you know the rules. Maybe you can practice and play with this simple MjMj Puzzle mahjong game itunes.apple.com/ca/app/mjmj-puzzle/id1078507997?mt=8 Very good for learning mahjong and lot of fun.
I'm guessing the "pong", "kong", and "chow" references are Cantonese? I learned "peng", "gang", and "chi".
Yakuza Kiwami 2 brought me here. The guy said "it's very easy to learn" and I didn't understand one single thing..
Where do you buy these large tiles? What's the tile size, they look bigger than the largest that I've seen for sale (42x29x22mm).
If they make an Among Us Version called Mahjong Us, every Child worldwide would know how to play Mahjong in a Matter of Weeks
my aunt brought out our antique mahjong set our grandma bought in when she was still in asia, i always see them playing as a little kid, it's almost like a tradition to play. i'm youtubing everything, i'm not losing
As clear as mud. There is a class at the senior center, maybe I should try that!
I came here after watching 'Claws'. I'd heard of the game, but I never knew how it was played.
So a winning hand has to have 4 melds and a pair, right? So the 4-of-a-kind type meld will never be in a winning hand because there aren't enough tiles (if you only have 13 plus the draw, 4 sets of 3 plus the pair take up all 14 tiles), right?
SgtSupaman :
A quad counts as “three tiles”. When you call a quad, you draw a replacement tile.
If you have three quads, you count that as nine tiles of your 13 tiles count.
wow..so much for understanding AKAGI...big fan of kaiji so really wanna see AKAGI
It's longer than 1900 century. It was designed to entertain people in the royal cruise since Ming dynasty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He
so it's been 600+ years.
Came here from Yakuza 0... I think maybe i’ll just stick to playing Outrun and pool...
lolol :D, at least we don't have to learn the rules for shogi.... wait.... x_x". lol~
.... just? D:
The basics aren't that hard, I agree, but the actual game is.
I tried to learn some basics of shogi, so I decided to go to a shogi online server....and they destroyed me, haha. So yeah, I'll stick to Outrun and pool as well. LOL
81dojo.com/en/
To start a mahjong game, the dealer rolls the dice, then see what the number of the dice is, count in an anti-clockwise direction, in order to see who goes first, then break the tile wall by the number of the dice. And every player takes 2 tiles, 13 tiles in their hand, The dealer has 14 tiles in his/her hand.
me, after finishing the video: i still don't understand how to play mahjong
I start seeing rainbows whenever someone start explaining those different tiles.
Actually it goes back to the Qin Dynasty (3rd Century BC). The game became popular in the West in 19th century.
Well....so much for that Yakuza Kiwami platinum.
I'm watching this for Yakuza 0
Nice explanation. Thank you. I've known how to play for years, but I want my sisters to learn. I'll point them to this video. That being said, I still can't keep score.. I saw a book of scores once, and wow.. there are a LOT of ways to get big points. Hopefully, my younger sister can make more sense of it.. She's better with things like that, than I am. ^_^ Thanks so much for sharing!! 💗💗💗
The only thing I learned from this video, is that those people need to harvest their oranges better. They're all on the bloody floor.
me and my gf are watching to learn for our date nights!!!! 😄
I just want to learn how it works so I can read Kaiji 3
Same
If you watch this video while being high or in normal condition the result is same
ahhh.....I miss playing this game back home in Nepal, Kathmandu...
i lol'd at the end when i saw the music comes from royalty free Kevin MacLeod! brilliant!!
Everyone uses Kevin's music lol
Dude people say this is hard but wait until you see all of these game conditions in riichi (japanese) mahjong. You must have a "yaku" (a winning hand that fits some criteria) and each yaku has a certain amount of "han" (points). You can't simply win by getting 4 sets of three and a set of 2. You MUST have some kind of yaku. The easiest yaku to achieve for a beginner has to probably be "tanyao", aka "all simples". You must only have number tiles from 2 to 8. This hand has little value. Another easy one is called "riichi" basically, you cannot pon or chii anyone else's tiles for the whole game. The moment someone does this, they forfeit their chance to riichi later on. If you can manage to built any hand a tile away from winning (no matter how poor), you can declare riichi. There are dozens of different yakus. Different special tiles and combinations that I haven't mentioned either.
Instructions unclear now I have $3Million debt and missing 4 fingers and 1 kidney
Necxophye UwU hilarious!
Here for Yakuza completion?
There is a neighbor here with more 10 people in a small apt playing dominoe or this game day and night, weekends, the problem is when they shuffle the pieces and move around the table and kicking the floor. Every 5 minutes they shuffle the pieces, it's loud, travels to neighbor's ceiling, it seems somebody is rolling the whole floor, when they have their windows open you hear them the obnoxious shuffle, you can from the street. Neighbors already called the police because the game is all day and night and every 5 minutes the shuffle. It's insane. I wonder if they got addicted and making money on the game.
This video is missing a few key pieces of information:
- How to break the wall and deal.
- Whether or not a Dead Wall is used.
- What happens when you call Kong - do you draw a tile from the dead wall or from the live wall if the dead wall is not used.
- How to declare a concealed Kong, or opting instead to conceal a Pung using 3 of the tiles and using the fourth to form a concealed Chow (though this is more advanced).
- Seat winds and prevailing winds, used in every form of Mahjong.
- How to score (actually the most important element).
I can't find any information or detailed rules on their website, only the scoring sheet. They could do a lot to improve this.
Hi Robin can you answer me?
I played British style which appears very close to this, so I understand the basic mechanics.... but we didn't get to scoring.
5:20 start here and you'll know about as much as i do after watching 17 times.
Now I can defeat Akagi!! ...Or maybe not.
haha ... i was thinking the same thing :p
this was the reason i came to this video xD to watch Akagi
There are other videos that can explain better about the game, but usually they are much longer.
YHFXirai Same!
Can someone explain this spam on every single mahjong video? Also what would be the best way to learn? I don't really have anyone to play with...
Fuck you
1.What happnes when you “kang” and left with a last tile?
2. Can you only Kang when a player throw from the left of you or can you do it wherever like pong?
3. When is it aloud to pong, kang or chi? Is it right after the leader throw his/her first tile at the start of the game or is it when every one has picked up their first tile from the first draw wall and tossed their first tile?
You can pon, kan at any moment you can only chi when the discarded tile is from the person left to you... If you are left with only one tile because you used all the others to form chi, kon and pong you now obviously need a pair to win so whichever tile you have left in your hand you have to draw the identical tile, at that point you can't use any one else's tiles... Its called furiten when you are in a state where you must draw the winning tile and can't use your opponents
@@Kirisapostle12
Great!
Thank you.
I think i need a extended lesson on that.. All i can remember is Pong Kong Chow... and thats only because it sounds like a Dish
What happens when its a Tuesday and the person on the left is mad at the person to his/her left?
I kinda get the gist of it, but I think that just like any game, I would need to play it to really understand it.
i'm here because of akagi
Me too! Hahaha!
Kaito .X .otaku This is Chinese Mahjong, which is the original. Akagi plays the Japanese variant.
thelittlesagg2 ohh that why this video didnt help that much
+Kaito .X .otaku same LMAO!!!:D
Kaito .X .otaku ht9
There are so many variations it's crazy.
None of the videos so far mention how many tiles are in the drawing piles at the start...
I think it's assumed that we know there are 144 tiles in a set and since 4 players each has 13 tiles which come up to 52 tiles, meaning 92 drawing tiles at the start?
@@mattakubodimasen10 but why do some sets have 158 tiles?
@@pianoLee-sx9dx oh really? I just started my search on mahjong as well so I can only guess it might be a variation or some bonus sets? Best to google it 😆
I was following at the start but got lost very quickly. Soothing voice, though, I don't regret watching :P
Kazama kiryu bought me here
Good tutorial my grandmother refined it a bit, but good basic tutorial
It's actually well explained but no yakus were mentioned. Which are mandatory if u want to win. Just go play mahjong and u will understand just with a video u will be confused no matter how many times u watch.
This was actually a great explanation!
so here i am. learning how to play a whole game just to progress in yakuza 4
When I played when I was younger, I remember my grandmother making a "flower pile" where we can substitute flowers for other tiles and we can get another tile when you kong. What is this pile? I remember counting tiles and breaking it, but how many tiles go into the flower pile?
When you "break the wall" at the start of the hand, you make a "live end" and a "dead end". You draw and play from the live end, and draw kong replacements from the dead end. Most players take flower replacements from the dead end too. Counting off tiles for the "flower pile" or "dead wall" is affected by the convention (house rule) concerning the dead wall. It's probably not too important, though.
It really is relatively simple. I've been playing for about 8 years and it's a lot of fun. But this isn't the best way to learn. I've taught many people how to play by setting the tiles up and then just walking around the table and playing each hand. It takes about 15 mins. to completely understand.
Are the same numeral symbols used in China and Japan?
Who else is here because the TH-cam algorithm suggested you a competitive mahjong match?
Ah I see, it all makes sense now. Ten seconds later * mind gone blank*
I’m here because of Saki. Watched the whole first season without understanding anything lol
Xavian Stormfang Oh, I see. I thought the only difference would be the terminology! Good to know, thank you (: