NorthernLion, known primarily for his riichi mahjong content. His name comes from the "North" tile in the game and the fact that he is famous for his bluff strategy. He was called Northern Lyin until he, his publicist, and Jay "Wolves" Atmydoor redesigned his persona as a "Lion," since he and his wife adopted a child who turned out to be two cats unsafely swaddled in a blanket.
@@sebastianwesterlund8777 but if you think about it, no south has been dropped, so someone probably had two Souths and that was probably south, so he denied south the wind
Timbo Jones Yeah that too, especially since NL opened his hand would have made him suspicious. Though he would hve been tempted at least if he only had one
You legit got me addicted to mahjong. I took your advice and picked up MahjongSoul. I’ve just been learning all of the Yaku possible in the game. Thank you NL
Strongly encourage everyone to give Riichi Mahjong a try. I literally knew nothing a week ago and I’ve been having a blast as a novice. Just commit a couple of hours to learning the basics and I promise you’ll have a good time taking points from other people and attempting to acquire the miraculously rare hands. The Mahjong Soul app is way too animu for my tastes but I still love it. It runs great and you can find consistent matches all day long. Thanks for exposing me to this awesome game, NL!
I'm honestly happy for Riichi content. I think that it deserves the spotlight. In my opinion it suits NL's style perfectly, given the mix of strategy and luck.
I just bought clubhouse games earlier in the week and have become obsessed with riichi mahjong. I heard you mention playing it in one of the isaac runs (that I tend to listen to as background sound while I play now haha) - finally decided to watch you play this. I'm still learning the rules of the game but watching you is definitely helping.
7:40 Fun fact, there were actually no 7-pin tiles left. One was discarded by Nanz, the other was the dora-indicator. There is always one hand worth of tiles (the "dead wall") that aren't normally drawn during a hand. Four of the tiles are reserved for draws when you make a Kan, 5 tiles are reserved to indicate the Dora and the other five are under them to indicate the Ura-Dora.
I know Mahjong isn't the best for TH-cam but man... if I don't love watching you play it. The classic NL commentary + the potential top-deck Tsumo has me so pogged!
Heck yes, I’ve been looking forward to this. Edit: It was great, playing into potential Rons reminds me of those electric-shock games, the suspense is high.
It feels good to understand this game well. Trust me reader, even if the instruction videos seem really long this game is quite easy to play but difficult to master. Think gin rummy but with the exception that you also need to fulfill a certain condition (out of a very large list) to win.
Dude I'm loving all this Mahjong content. You, Kate and Apollo have gotten me seriously hooked on MajSoul, would love to see more Mahjong content on the channel.
I just learned (the basics) of Richi Mahjong after watching your video dropping on Dan. It's a great game! I'd be so pogged if you did another gameplay video of this game. Maybe you could make like an introduction to the game for people who play clubhouse games?
I really enjoyed your mahjong games with apollo and kate yesterday! You got me interested enough to learn the game and I love it now! More mahjong please :)
Since the Egg mentions Thirteen Orphans as "The Exodia" of hands, I'll say what it is: The hand is composed of 1 set of terminals (AKA, the 1 and 9 tiles) of each suit, plus one of every Honour tile, plus a duplicate tile to complete a pair and have 13 tiles. It is also not the rarest hand in the game, there are many that are way harder due to requiring multiple sets of triplets, and one what straight up requires 4 quads. There are also hands that are just "Win on your first turn by drawing any valid hand", which have stupidly low chances
On the 14:22 hand I would have gone for a hand combination where every set and pair has a terminal or honour tile in it, that means dropping the red four as the first discard, of course it’s better to go for fast hands when you have the option, but if you get one really good hand that can often decide the game, so I think the risk would have been worth it, additionally, kans actually do give more points than pons, the scoring system is based on two factors, one is han, which is basically what you see at the end of the game, if you get a dragon triplet that’s one han for example, the other is fu, there are a lot of different things that give fu, but the basics are that quads give the most, closed ones are better than open ones, triplets still give fu, but sequences do not, you can actually look at lists online that show how many points a hand is worth that has a specific amount of fu and han. Edit: a honours quad is actually worth even more fu, plus you reveal additional dora indicators which if lucky can dramatically boost the value of your hand, and since he was most likely gonna open that hand anyways I think it would have made sense to kan, but still I’d say you’re doing pretty well NL.
Going for an outside hand (chanta/junchan) would have been great, but I'd HEAVILY advise against open kan in situations like that. While it's true that a big hand can win you the game, that also means one really bad hand can totally sink you. Consider: - The new dora is more likely to benefit other players, mostly because they can still riichi to get extra ura-dora from it. - The hand is far from tenpai with mostly bad waits, so the dead wall draw isn't particularly exciting; ideally you'd want to maximize the chance of hitting rinshan. - The extra fu are unlikely to bump a hand into taking first place that otherwise wouldn't. Of course, if you're really behind, then you have no choice but to pop off and hope for the best. But USUALLY the conditions are pretty strict to make the reward worth the risk.
I started to learn Mahjong after watching you and Kate stream. I'd love to see more mahjong content. I suck up any of either of your videos like a player with 13 orphans sucks points.
I remember like it was yesterday when I was recommending NL to play mahjong during the 1st Clubhouse stream. The Mahjong saga has Ponned out of our gourds.
Nanz(North first round) had both Souths, seems like your 2nd guess was on the money. This is actually a lot of fun to watch when you have a basic understanding of the game
Richi majong bingo >Dont ron me >I think we should chi/pon that >Mentions how good majong is >"If you don't understand the rules.... sorry" >References Tenpai (free space) >I don't understand but i enjoy >Takes "more time" > "I really just wanna complete a hand" > Pogging up
Watching this is the equivalent of watching Barney play that game in the casino in HIMYM where absolutely nothing makes sense. I'm so lost but I love it
NL, thank you for the clubhouse games content. I bought it and fell in love with hanafuda and Riichi Mahjong now. I have no idea what I'm doing in Riichi, but I'm learning.
The clubhousegames mahjong actually got me back into mahjong, haven't played it in years. I think you mentioned mahjong souls on one of the streams and playing a ton of that since i don't have a switch.
I've watched a 3-hour tutorial and played half a dozen games on Mahjong Soul, was stuck in third for 5 games, lost badly in my next-to-last but just now I started the game with a BAIMAN hand (riichi, ippatsu, all simples, dora, red five, ura dora) 24k points on a Ron, player to my right was absolutely destroyed. Even when I was losing I was having fun though, pretty chill yet challenging game.
Some DAE Mahjong knowledge: You mentioned that you don't get more points for having four white dragons instead of three, but actually, for a hand worth 4 han or less, having a kan of dragons will give you lots of fu, which in turn can increase your score by a decent amount. You also might get the pog draw on the dora tile. (I still agree with keeping the hand closed though)
Great content, having watched the Saki anime also makes me an expert in the topic so there we go. When do the special moves with lights and yells and sparks happen btw?
So I've cracked that you're trying to pair things, but not sure what the sequences are. @ 5:55, you discard a 5. Does it not relate to the fours of the same design?
@@OfficialMaxBox generally to have a valid hand you're trying to make a bunch of sets of 3 + one pair (since you need 14 tiles total). You can have straights of length 3, or 3 of a kind. larger straights don't actually help (unless it's big enough you can get two straights that are 3 long, like 1,2,3 and 4,5,6). since he already had the green 4s as a 3-of-a-kind, he can't use those in a straight anymore, although if he had a fourth one he could choose to make the existing 3-of-a-kind into a 4-of-a-kind OR use it for a separate straight (like 4,5,6). 4 of a kind is treated basically the same as 3 of a kind and gives you some bonuses but doesn't change things too much because you get an extra tile when you 4 of a kind so you still have room. On top of having a valid hand, you need at least one yaku (think of it as a win condition). There's a ton of them and you can look up cheat sheets, but e.g. having 3-of-a-kind of dragon tiles or one of the special winds counts as a win condition (the one corresponding to your seat or to the round of the game, in this version the round is always east, and your seat rotates until you've been in each seat at least once). Another example is having a had where all the sets of 3 you make include 1s or 9s or dragons or wind tiles, another example is having NONE of the sets including 1s or 9s or dragons or wind tiles. Also if you keep your hand concealed when you're one tile away from a valid hand you can declare 'riichi' and doing that gives you a yaku by itself but if you open your hand by stealing tiles you need to have some other yaku to be able to win. There's a couple of special hands that don't need you to have the sets of 3 + a pair thing, one is if you have 7 pairs of tiles, another is if you have one each of the dragon and wind tiles, and a 1 and 9 in each suit, + one extra of any of those. But apart from that you need to have a yaku + a valid hand to win.
You and Kate got me into Riichi Mahjong, so I downloaded Mahjong Soul, but it feels like every single game plays out like this one. I'm assuming I'm just bad but I can never make anything happen 😅
How to basically play: Keywords and minor explanations below. This game is beautiful, but a lot of nuances. I personally believe Riichi Mahjong is the superior version of the game, but if yaku is too difficult to understand, you can try Chinese Mahjong. It uses some extra tiles but doesn’t involve yaku, with that said. The aim of Riichi Mahjong is to create 4 sets (chi: 123, pon: 111) and a pair (33) out of your 14 tiles. Each players turn begins with them drawing a tile, and will end when they discard a tile. If you have 2 of the same tile in your hand, and someone discards that same tile, you can call “pon” (4 tiles is called kan). If the player to your left(the person who goes before you) plays a tile to finish a sequence (123) in your hand, you can call chi. There are 4 of each tile in the game. [Honor tiles] Wind: North, East, South West. (N, E, S, W) Dragon: Red, Green, White (R, G, Wh) Prevalent wind: The game's wind type (usually east, south if gamemode allows) Seat wind: This is your specific wind [Terminals] 1 and 9's [Simples] 2 - 8 [Types of hands] Open (You've claimed a pon, chi or kan) Closed (You haven't taken any tiles from discards, and therefor do not have to show your set) [Winning a round] Ron (You've completed your 4 sets and pair with a discard from another player. You will only take points from the person you took the tile from) Tsumo (You've drawn the tile yourself, everyone pays you) [Hand states] Riichi (One tile away from winning, with a closed hand. You cannot change your hand if you declare riichi, only touching the tile that doesn't fit in your hand) Tenpai (One tile away from winning. If the game comes to an end with no one scoring an entire hand, scoring is based on who has Tenpai) No-ten (You are not one tile away from winning. If the game ends with no one scoring, you will pay people with Tenpai) Furiten (You are one tile away from winning, but you have that tile in your discard pile. You cannot call ron from another player, you MUST draw the tile yourself) [Yaku] A win condition, you MUST have at least one yaku to be able to score your hand. Basic yaku (open hand): Any 3 sets + a pair + 3 prevalent or seat winds (Open hand) Any 3 sets + a pair + 3 dragons (Open hand) Any 4 sets + a pair, but with no terminals or honor tiles (Closed hand) Any 4 sets + a pair (Closed hand) 7 pairs (Closed & Open) All terminals (Closed & Open) All tiles are the same suit There are a lot more yaku's, these are just simple forms, it would probably be best to look up the more complex ones. Note: It's a lot easier to score a closed hand. As you don't NEED honor tiles, which are usually the more wanted tiles
20:45 trying to go for riichi with so many pairs in hand is very difficult because drawing natural triples is difficult. A few turns earlier, you could have taken the pon and gone for tanyao and it wouldn't have been too far off because you only had 3 terminal tiles.
I started this video a confused man, but elected not to continue in ignorance, but to instead pause it half way through, read multiple documents online, play one (1) full game through south-4, WHICH I WON, and come back a changed and wiser man. I resume the video, I understand more now. This is how I win.
NL: Who's holding south when they're not sitting south? NL two seconds later: The north tiles don't do anything for us but thy can still make a pair or a triplet.
Oh my god I can’t believe he would discard the seven of bamboo sitting south ready to kan so another time would be flipped from the dead wall so he could potentially have more dora giving himself a chance at a bigger lead!
The guy didn't want to drop your south tile because you were South and spooked him by calling all those tiles thereby showing him that you were in Tenpai. He was in Tenpai too so he was content with using those South as a pair and having a shitty wait than risk dealing into you.
9:45 WHO HAS MY SOUTH TILES, WHO'S HOLDING SOUTH WHEN THEY'RE NOT SITTING SOUTH?? 10:08 The north tiles don't do anything for us but they can still make a pair or a triplet in our hand
NorthernLion, known primarily for his riichi mahjong content. His name comes from the "North" tile in the game and the fact that he is famous for his bluff strategy. He was called Northern Lyin until he, his publicist, and Jay "Wolves" Atmydoor redesigned his persona as a "Lion," since he and his wife adopted a child who turned out to be two cats unsafely swaddled in a blanket.
@Bad_Script Get juiced, get squeezed
I understand about 1/3rd of every sentence in this video.
ok Mr. Einstein, no need to flex
I imagine this is about the same level of lingo overload as late-stage Ultimate Chicken Horse, but it is still immensely satisfying to watch.
YES, This is the content I Crave
NL doesn't go for 13 Orphans
Mahjong players: reasonable
Isaac watchers: BUT THE ZANINESS!!!
to be fair, it wouldn't have worked as all east winds were taken.
I nearly won 2 rounds in a row with 7 pairs, but the second game I got hit by a 13 orphans. Zany recognize zany.
9:50 The north player had two South tiles and was probably trying for the same play as Egg
He couldn't since he wasn't south, so he would actually lose if he called a south. Although keeping the South as a pair was still good
@@sebastianwesterlund8777 You're probably right. When it comes to mahjong I'm like that dad from the "are you winning, son?" meme.
Nathan Haid I feel ya. Mahjong is a game where in order to learn it you just have to play and build up experience before you understand it. It’s weird
@@sebastianwesterlund8777 but if you think about it, no south has been dropped, so someone probably had two Souths and that was probably south, so he denied south the wind
Timbo Jones Yeah that too, especially since NL opened his hand would have made him suspicious. Though he would hve been tempted at least if he only had one
You legit got me addicted to mahjong. I took your advice and picked up MahjongSoul. I’ve just been learning all of the Yaku possible in the game. Thank you NL
Finally, a good fucking game.
'Hey Wang, did you finish designing the White Dragon tile?'
'Oh yeah, uh, I did but it's on a white background so it's invisible.'
Fun fact in the original chinese mahjong the white dragon tile has a blue rectangle with an empty center on it
I know absolutely nothing on Riichi Majong, however it’s always POG when Majong is being played. I love the vernacular in this freaking game so much
NL plays a game he doesn't understand: I like.
NL plays a game I don't understand : How DARE you.
I've been playing so much mahjong ever since you introduced me, thanks a ton brother
22:30 The exact moment Egg drew the tile he would have needed for Seven Pairs if he didn’t open his hand for no reason
Seven Pairs is a trap though. You'll never get it when you need it
machcharge He still would have had tenpai which was what he was looking for to begin with. He gave that up by breaking the meld
@@AlexRydian He disrupted the draw order by calling pon, making it so that he *wouldn't* have drawn that tile.
Strongly encourage everyone to give Riichi Mahjong a try. I literally knew nothing a week ago and I’ve been having a blast as a novice.
Just commit a couple of hours to learning the basics and I promise you’ll have a good time taking points from other people and attempting to acquire the miraculously rare hands.
The Mahjong Soul app is way too animu for my tastes but I still love it. It runs great and you can find consistent matches all day long.
Thanks for exposing me to this awesome game, NL!
Someday I will learn the rules to this game, and then I will come back and watch this again like it's a whole new video
East Round 4, NL is in the North seat
*boss music starts playing*
"It is me, North Ryan"
chrismen. “I have ascended, I am now known as Northern Ryan”
I said the first hand looked pretty good and NL confirmed it. I am learning. Soon Mahjong will make some sense to me
This. This is what i wanted. I can listen to NL commentating mahjong all day long.
I would really like to see some more mahjong. It’s a pretty cool game and your energy is just great. Keep up the great stuff
I'm honestly happy for Riichi content. I think that it deserves the spotlight. In my opinion it suits NL's style perfectly, given the mix of strategy and luck.
As a viewer in Hong Kong who grew up playing mahjong, watching NL plays it genuinely makes me pog out of my gourd
Just for this day I read through what felt like 20 pages of rules. I have no regrets. Thanks for the company NL
THE PEOPLE DEMAND MORE MAHJONG!
I still haven't quite grasped the rules of this yet, but it's still very interesting to watch!
I been waiting for this video all week.
I just bought clubhouse games earlier in the week and have become obsessed with riichi mahjong. I heard you mention playing it in one of the isaac runs (that I tend to listen to as background sound while I play now haha) - finally decided to watch you play this. I'm still learning the rules of the game but watching you is definitely helping.
I had 0 clue about mahjong befor your videos and now I have a 0.5 idea about mahjong, and its still fun as heck to watch
7:40 Fun fact, there were actually no 7-pin tiles left. One was discarded by Nanz, the other was the dora-indicator. There is always one hand worth of tiles (the "dead wall") that aren't normally drawn during a hand. Four of the tiles are reserved for draws when you make a Kan, 5 tiles are reserved to indicate the Dora and the other five are under them to indicate the Ura-Dora.
Bro you're making up shit now an ura Dora? This game sounds so cool I want to learn so bad now
I know Mahjong isn't the best for TH-cam but man... if I don't love watching you play it.
The classic NL commentary + the potential top-deck Tsumo has me so pogged!
Heck yes, I’ve been looking forward to this.
Edit: It was great, playing into potential Rons reminds me of those electric-shock games, the suspense is high.
Thank you for the video! All of you friends are super awesome!
All this Mahjong content has me POGGED
I know it's maybe not the best game to make videos of, but I'd love to see more in the future.
It feels good to understand this game well. Trust me reader, even if the instruction videos seem really long this game is quite easy to play but difficult to master. Think gin rummy but with the exception that you also need to fulfill a certain condition (out of a very large list) to win.
I might not understand, like, anything in this video. But man, it's so entertaining to watch your process. More Mahjong please!
Dude I'm loving all this Mahjong content. You, Kate and Apollo have gotten me seriously hooked on MajSoul, would love to see more Mahjong content on the channel.
Your video about stream sniping Dan got me incredibly addicted to riichi mahjong, very pleased to see this in my subbox.
Honestly I would watch so much more of this NL. I'm having a surprisingly fun time learning this game vicariously through you. :P
I just learned (the basics) of Richi Mahjong after watching your video dropping on Dan. It's a great game! I'd be so pogged if you did another gameplay video of this game. Maybe you could make like an introduction to the game for people who play clubhouse games?
I really enjoyed your mahjong games with apollo and kate yesterday! You got me interested enough to learn the game and I love it now! More mahjong please :)
Since the Egg mentions Thirteen Orphans as "The Exodia" of hands, I'll say what it is: The hand is composed of 1 set of terminals (AKA, the 1 and 9 tiles) of each suit, plus one of every Honour tile, plus a duplicate tile to complete a pair and have 13 tiles. It is also not the rarest hand in the game, there are many that are way harder due to requiring multiple sets of triplets, and one what straight up requires 4 quads. There are also hands that are just "Win on your first turn by drawing any valid hand", which have stupidly low chances
On the 14:22 hand I would have gone for a hand combination where every set and pair has a terminal or honour tile in it, that means dropping the red four as the first discard, of course it’s better to go for fast hands when you have the option, but if you get one really good hand that can often decide the game, so I think the risk would have been worth it, additionally, kans actually do give more points than pons, the scoring system is based on two factors, one is han, which is basically what you see at the end of the game, if you get a dragon triplet that’s one han for example, the other is fu, there are a lot of different things that give fu, but the basics are that quads give the most, closed ones are better than open ones, triplets still give fu, but sequences do not, you can actually look at lists online that show how many points a hand is worth that has a specific amount of fu and han.
Edit: a honours quad is actually worth even more fu, plus you reveal additional dora indicators which if lucky can dramatically boost the value of your hand, and since he was most likely gonna open that hand anyways I think it would have made sense to kan, but still I’d say you’re doing pretty well NL.
Going for an outside hand (chanta/junchan) would have been great, but I'd HEAVILY advise against open kan in situations like that. While it's true that a big hand can win you the game, that also means one really bad hand can totally sink you. Consider:
- The new dora is more likely to benefit other players, mostly because they can still riichi to get extra ura-dora from it.
- The hand is far from tenpai with mostly bad waits, so the dead wall draw isn't particularly exciting; ideally you'd want to maximize the chance of hitting rinshan.
- The extra fu are unlikely to bump a hand into taking first place that otherwise wouldn't.
Of course, if you're really behind, then you have no choice but to pop off and hope for the best. But USUALLY the conditions are pretty strict to make the reward worth the risk.
I love watching you play Riichi Mahjong
I had no clue what was going on but this was fun to watch :P
I like this. Would actually like to see more of it.
I started to learn Mahjong after watching you and Kate stream. I'd love to see more mahjong content. I suck up any of either of your videos like a player with 13 orphans sucks points.
I remember like it was yesterday when I was recommending NL to play mahjong during the 1st Clubhouse stream.
The Mahjong saga has Ponned out of our gourds.
Nanz(North first round) had both Souths, seems like your 2nd guess was on the money. This is actually a lot of fun to watch when you have a basic understanding of the game
Richi majong bingo
>Dont ron me
>I think we should chi/pon that
>Mentions how good majong is
>"If you don't understand the rules.... sorry"
>References Tenpai (free space)
>I don't understand but i enjoy
>Takes "more time"
> "I really just wanna complete a hand"
> Pogging up
The fact that Nanz had the other two souths at the end of that round is like Kaiji levels of unfortunate luck
Watching this is the equivalent of watching Barney play that game in the casino in HIMYM where absolutely nothing makes sense. I'm so lost but I love it
NL, thank you for the clubhouse games content. I bought it and fell in love with hanafuda and Riichi Mahjong now. I have no idea what I'm doing in Riichi, but I'm learning.
I have been gripped by this game, have been playing as much as I can, and am still terrible but it’s so fun.
I’m catching up here. I understand nothing of what is going on, but I still love it
The time has come for blessed mahjong content
you kate and austin absolutely pogging out playing riichi mahjong... I would love to see it
17:34 made me scream that he gave away the 13 orphans play
The clubhousegames mahjong actually got me back into mahjong, haven't played it in years. I think you mentioned mahjong souls on one of the streams and playing a ton of that since i don't have a switch.
I am slowly getting into Riichi Mahjong and I blame you NL! But that Mahjong souls app you suggested is really fun.
I have no idea whats going on but I'm here for it brother!
I've watched a 3-hour tutorial and played half a dozen games on Mahjong Soul, was stuck in third for 5 games, lost badly in my next-to-last but just now I started the game with a BAIMAN hand (riichi, ippatsu, all simples, dora, red five, ura dora) 24k points on a Ron, player to my right was absolutely destroyed. Even when I was losing I was having fun though, pretty chill yet challenging game.
Oh boy, a new video of Mahjong! Can't wait to see what new rules NL conjures up this time.
Some DAE Mahjong knowledge: You mentioned that you don't get more points for having four white dragons instead of three, but actually, for a hand worth 4 han or less, having a kan of dragons will give you lots of fu, which in turn can increase your score by a decent amount. You also might get the pog draw on the dora tile. (I still agree with keeping the hand closed though)
I have no idea what’s going on like well deserved
You seem to like Riichi Mahjong so much that I bought clubhouse games to play it. I have to say it... Not disappointed, this game is amazing.
Loving all of the Mahjong content.
i love these mahjongs dude please play more
I'd love to see you play more, and lightly explain the rules on how you win
Great content, having watched the Saki anime also makes me an expert in the topic so there we go. When do the special moves with lights and yells and sparks happen btw?
Usually they are Chii,Pon,Ron,Kan,Richii,And Tsumo
I would honestly love a little Riichi Mahjong series.
13:30 when he’s waiting on the 6 pin and then the other person show’s he has all 4 and he thinks it was the 9 pin even though he had 2 in his hand
It's a great hand, keeps all the 1's and 9's
So I've cracked that you're trying to pair things, but not sure what the sequences are. @ 5:55, you discard a 5. Does it not relate to the fours of the same design?
follow-up, looks like either straights or x of a kind?
@@OfficialMaxBox
generally to have a valid hand you're trying to make a bunch of sets of 3 + one pair (since you need 14 tiles total). You can have straights of length 3, or 3 of a kind. larger straights don't actually help (unless it's big enough you can get two straights that are 3 long, like 1,2,3 and 4,5,6).
since he already had the green 4s as a 3-of-a-kind, he can't use those in a straight anymore, although if he had a fourth one he could choose to make the existing 3-of-a-kind into a 4-of-a-kind OR use it for a separate straight (like 4,5,6).
4 of a kind is treated basically the same as 3 of a kind and gives you some bonuses but doesn't change things too much because you get an extra tile when you 4 of a kind so you still have room.
On top of having a valid hand, you need at least one yaku (think of it as a win condition). There's a ton of them and you can look up cheat sheets, but e.g. having 3-of-a-kind of dragon tiles or one of the special winds counts as a win condition (the one corresponding to your seat or to the round of the game, in this version the round is always east, and your seat rotates until you've been in each seat at least once). Another example is having a had where all the sets of 3 you make include 1s or 9s or dragons or wind tiles, another example is having NONE of the sets including 1s or 9s or dragons or wind tiles. Also if you keep your hand concealed when you're one tile away from a valid hand you can declare 'riichi' and doing that gives you a yaku by itself but if you open your hand by stealing tiles you need to have some other yaku to be able to win.
There's a couple of special hands that don't need you to have the sets of 3 + a pair thing, one is if you have 7 pairs of tiles, another is if you have one each of the dragon and wind tiles, and a 1 and 9 in each suit, + one extra of any of those. But apart from that you need to have a yaku + a valid hand to win.
@@khajiit92 Brilliant reply, thank you.
NL buddy you're slowly converting the channel from Isaac to mahjong please post more mahjong for us!
Can you please upload some more Mahjong videos? It's super fascinating to watch you, and do a good job explaining it in layman's terms.
Why is this so good to watch?
You and Kate got me into Riichi Mahjong, so I downloaded Mahjong Soul, but it feels like every single game plays out like this one. I'm assuming I'm just bad but I can never make anything happen 😅
How to basically play:
Keywords and minor explanations below. This game is beautiful, but a lot of nuances. I personally believe Riichi Mahjong is the superior version of the game, but if yaku is too difficult to understand, you can try Chinese Mahjong. It uses some extra tiles but doesn’t involve yaku, with that said.
The aim of Riichi Mahjong is to create 4 sets (chi: 123, pon: 111) and a pair (33) out of your 14 tiles.
Each players turn begins with them drawing a tile, and will end when they discard a tile.
If you have 2 of the same tile in your hand, and someone discards that same tile, you can call “pon” (4 tiles is called kan). If the player to your left(the person who goes before you) plays a tile to finish a sequence (123) in your hand, you can call chi.
There are 4 of each tile in the game.
[Honor tiles]
Wind: North, East, South West. (N, E, S, W)
Dragon: Red, Green, White (R, G, Wh)
Prevalent wind: The game's wind type (usually east, south if gamemode allows)
Seat wind: This is your specific wind
[Terminals]
1 and 9's
[Simples]
2 - 8
[Types of hands]
Open (You've claimed a pon, chi or kan)
Closed (You haven't taken any tiles from discards, and therefor do not have to show your set)
[Winning a round]
Ron (You've completed your 4 sets and pair with a discard from another player. You will only take points from the person you took the tile from)
Tsumo (You've drawn the tile yourself, everyone pays you)
[Hand states]
Riichi (One tile away from winning, with a closed hand. You cannot change your hand if you declare riichi, only touching the tile that doesn't fit in your hand)
Tenpai (One tile away from winning. If the game comes to an end with no one scoring an entire hand, scoring is based on who has Tenpai)
No-ten (You are not one tile away from winning. If the game ends with no one scoring, you will pay people with Tenpai)
Furiten (You are one tile away from winning, but you have that tile in your discard pile. You cannot call ron from another player, you MUST draw the tile yourself)
[Yaku]
A win condition, you MUST have at least one yaku to be able to score your hand.
Basic yaku (open hand): Any 3 sets + a pair + 3 prevalent or seat winds
(Open hand) Any 3 sets + a pair + 3 dragons
(Open hand) Any 4 sets + a pair, but with no terminals or honor tiles
(Closed hand) Any 4 sets + a pair
(Closed hand) 7 pairs
(Closed & Open) All terminals
(Closed & Open) All tiles are the same suit
There are a lot more yaku's, these are just simple forms, it would probably be best to look up the more complex ones.
Note: It's a lot easier to score a closed hand. As you don't NEED honor tiles, which are usually the more wanted tiles
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As a fellow beginner this was a very pogged video
Thanks NL, I am now very addicted to riichi mahjong
20:45 trying to go for riichi with so many pairs in hand is very difficult because drawing natural triples is difficult. A few turns earlier, you could have taken the pon and gone for tanyao and it wouldn't have been too far off because you only had 3 terminal tiles.
With the power of animey and majsoul I learnt mahjong for the glorious power of being able to follow the most poggers content on youtube.
haha I've been playing both riichi and chinese mahjong since I was 7 so glad to see NL mahjong content :D
I downloaded mahjong soul thanks to his game against Dan and have been having a blast lately
still dont know shit about riichi mahjong but I could watch these videos all day
I'm glad I coincidentally learned riichi a couple months ago so I could understand this video.
I started this video a confused man, but elected not to continue in ignorance, but to instead pause it half way through, read multiple documents online, play one (1) full game through south-4, WHICH I WON, and come back a changed and wiser man. I resume the video, I understand more now. This is how I win.
Uh oh, it's a Ron-ky! He's gobbling up your points!
two hours of research into mahjong to prepare me for the mahjong stream VOD and this video, and it still wasn't enough
Golden goblet day 5 is poggers
5d chess with multiverse time travel is POGGERS
I'd love to see you, Malf, Dan, and Apollo play this on stream with banter since you wouldn't have to spend 16 hours explaining it
I am so high and what is this? Incredible.
NL: Who's holding south when they're not sitting south?
NL two seconds later: The north tiles don't do anything for us but thy can still make a pair or a triplet.
i want MOOOOOORE majong! how is every series ryan is airing rn so pogged????
9:50 North had the other 2 south tiles as their pair 😭
When egglord keeps 2 norths as South with no Yaka. Feels bad man.
This man got me to try Mahjong Soul.
I've won a single round against AIs and I honestly have absolutely no idea how I did it.
Mahjong = Pure pog
Oh my god I can’t believe he would discard the seven of bamboo sitting south ready to kan so another time would be flipped from the dead wall so he could potentially have more dora giving himself a chance at a bigger lead!
The guy didn't want to drop your south tile because you were South and spooked him by calling all those tiles thereby showing him that you were in Tenpai. He was in Tenpai too so he was content with using those South as a pair and having a shitty wait than risk dealing into you.
I hear about south tiles, sharks and dragons, I have absolutely no idea whats going on but it feels like the fate of the world is being decided.
9:45 WHO HAS MY SOUTH TILES, WHO'S HOLDING SOUTH WHEN THEY'RE NOT SITTING SOUTH??
10:08 The north tiles don't do anything for us but they can still make a pair or a triplet in our hand