How do you play Japanese Mahjong?
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at
1:42 am
I won a Japanese Mahjong set from a UFO catcher in, of course, Japan. And now I purchase drugs online want to learn Japanese Mahjong to use the set, but I can’t find a decent tutorial anywhere!!
Can anybody help?
Mahjong is Chinese. I don’t think that there’s a japanese specific rule set, as the game is always played (at least to my knowledge) with the chinese rules. Mahjong is huge in Japan, but it’s rather complicated. I’ve forgotten how to play, but this page should help some.
http://www.west-meet-east.com/mahjong.htm
Mahjong is the most sophisticated game in the world. It originally came from China, but quite popular among Japanese. Usually it’s played by four people. Each player’s hand always consists of 13 tiles.The object of the game to get a complete hand of 14 tiles. You need to use your brain a lot ! There are some Web site where you can practice Mahjong game with on-line friends if you can read Japanese ……..
There IS a Japanese specific rule set, and the japanese version is definitely more complicated (and more fun, in my opinion) than the Chinese version. The main difference is the Riichi (declaring to other players that you are in ten pai i.e. one tile away from winning; it is worth one Yaku, effectively doubling your score) and the minimum 1 Yaku requirement (you must have at least one special combination to win, in addition to having a complete hand). Full rules here:
http://v3gas.navhost.com/mahjong/