MAHJONG CHINESE PLUS

When a player discards a tile, other players may call it if they wish to use it to complete a set. Discards are placed in rows in front of each player, in chronological order, and typically in rows six tiles long.

He then either wins from this tile, or discards a tile of their choosing, placing the discarded tile in front of them. Once starting hands have been dealt, the dealer takes a tile from the end of the wall. PlayingĪt the start of the game all tiles are shuffled and placed in rows (called “walls”) face-down on the table (see Setting Up below, if playing with physical tiles). Closed kans do not have to be called as soon as they are formed in the hand – a player can choose when to declare them, though they must be declared before the player can win. A closed kan is declared by showing all four tiles, and then flipping over a tile at either end.

MAHJONG CHINESE PLUS

This is the easiest set to form, and consist of a run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit, for example:Ī sequence cannot wrap around the ends of a suit, cannot be made of tiles from different suits and cannot be made from honour tiles, so the following are not valid sequences:Ī triplet consists of three of the same tile, eg:Īs a kan uses up four tiles instead of the usual three for sets, to form part of a winning hand it needs to be declared, and the player receives an extra tile from the dead wall to make up for the extra tile inside the set (otherwise the player will have one too few tiles to make four sets plus one pair). There are three types of set: Sequence ( Shuntsu) The core aim of a player while playing mahjong is to create a winning hand by forming sets. If the player doesn’t have a finished hand, they must discard and will go back to 13 tiles. At this point, if they have a complete hand of four groups and one pair (3+3+3+3+2=14), and have a valid yaku (explained below), they can declare they have won. At the start of their turn, each player will draw a tile from the wall, or claim the discard from another player, which will temporarily give them 14 tiles. As an optional rule, riichi mahjong can also be played with one five from each suit being replaced with a red five tile. Riichi mahjong does not use the flower or season tiles found in Chinese sets, nor the joker tiles used in American Mah Jongg. In addition to the three suits, there are Honour/Value tiles, which are made up of two subsets: Winds: (East, South, West, North respectively)ĭragons: (Green, Red, White respectively) (The numbers are represented with the Chinese/Japanese number characters) (Note that the 1 Sou is represented with a bird, usually a peacock or owl, rather than a single stick) Pinzu (aka Pin, Circles, Dots):

The majority of the tiles consist of the numbers 1 to 9 in three ‘suits’, which are: Souzu (aka Sou, Bamboo, Sticks): Riichi mahjong is played with 34 different tiles, of which there are four of each type, to make up 136 tiles used in total. The aim of this guide is to teach enough of the key aspects and basics for someone who is new to the game to start playing on a computer client such as the Gamedesign Flash game, rather than to be a comprehensive guide to all the rules and edge-cases that exist in the game. Riichi mahjong can be a fairly complex game for beginners to pick up. It shares similarities with Rummikub, and card games such as gin rummy and poker. It is a tabletop game that is played by four players, with each player having a hand which they must try and complete to win points from the other players. Riichi mahjong is a Japanese variant of the ancient Chinese game of mahjong.

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