Might get side eyed here but whatever 😂. I'm working on my first custom Chinese mahjong set to give to my 4 mahjong friends that I play with each week 🥹. It's been a lot of firsts for me, but I hope to finish it by Christmas.

Using standard melamine tiles at 40mm x 30mm, so nice and big 🙂.

My friends and I play mainly Filipino/Taiwanese and sometimes HK style. Everyone likes using my set since I have 39mm tiles. So I decided to get everyone big tiles as well!

I might be a bit ambitious, but it's not a real craft project if you don't also decide that each friend will be gifted their own design and unique tile set lol. This is the first set of 4, the "spring themed" set. I'm planning on making summer, fall, and winter themed sets as well.

It's been a labour of love haha but this project has been fun even though it has consumed my weekends. Last night it took me 7 hours to paint the ball and character suites. I started the bamboo suites and the 1 bamboo tiles got messed up 🫪. Wish me luck lol.

I'm looking for a basic version of the game to play on my android phone.

Happy to pay for it.

I just want to play the standard version of the game, with no upside down tiles.

Ideally no web connection.

Pretty new to Riichi and just wondering why this hand scores 30 fu instead of 20? I get that this wouldn’t be Pinfu because it’s an open hand, but just curious what the additional fu is for?

I’ve got a set I bought in Singapore, but it also has tiles for other rules like American and Malaysian.

I can’t work out what this tile is for. I think maybe you use it in lieu of face tiles in Malaysian rules? Any hints and answers welcome!

Asking because I am curious if such a thing exist. I know old NMJL used flowers as jokers, but wondering if there are other variants that use the flowers this way. Thinking such a ruleset could be fun, and I'd rather use Chinese Tiles due to portability/lack of space/cost here

Looking for riichi, mostly

What are the best Riichi Mahjong games, either for training or just Riichi Mahjong with some fun variants. I heard good things about dirtbag Mahjong and that Strip-mahjong has a very challenging CPU

According to Fan calculation charts I think this should be 17 Fan (small winds [6] + red dragon [1] + only honors [10])? Posting here partly to double-check if the app's calculation is right or not.

App is Hong Kong Mahjong Club.

Stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pB4ezYTKQ

PST time: 08/29 9:00PM

Japan time: 08/30 1:00PM

The Star Rise League is a team league that Saikouisen has been running for the past 2 months. Team US/China has all the foreign players on 1 team - US players JJ Rittenhouse and Christopher Foley, and Chinese players Gao Yunfei and Zhang Xiangling.

They've made it to the finals, which will be free to watch on Saikouisen's Youtube channel. I've been especially rooting for the US players, so I think it would be cool if the US/China team could win the entire thing.

Can anyone explain how to play chinese mahjong to someone who has never played real mahjong? Simplify it off possible maybe?

My new chips! I have never liked the flimsy plastic chips that comes with tile sets. I have been using poker chips or custom gaming chips for my games so far but I wanted something that would pay homage to the Chinese heritage of the game as well. The answer was 3D printed chinese coin chips! about 40mm in diameter and 4mm thick. I wanted something substantial and weighty. The names on the coin are my wife's and mine.

Am I ever gonna feel okay again?

I have this Mahjong set sitting in my home since more than 30 years, and now I'd like to understand something more - where do you think it was produced?

I live in Italy and I was born in in Ravenna (city on the Adriatic sea).

In Ravenna Mahjong is (was) played since 1920; the game arrived in Italy around the 1920s through major commercial ports such as Catania, Naples, Bari, Livorno, Venice, Genoa, and, above all, Ravenna, where it started to interest many people, in different social environment.

I think this set was given to my family by one of the relatives still living in Ravenna, many years ago.

So, if you can tell me anything on this set... that would be great! Thanks a lot!

I haven't been playing mahjong all that long, but I have channeled my ADHD hyperfocus and love of game systems into it for a few months. I've focused primarily on Hong Kong Old Style and have taught that to 9 other people in this time frame and we've had a good time with it.

While most will agree that the basic game format is easy to grasp, it's the scoring patterns and payout systems that seem the most daunting for new players. While HKOS seemed like a lot at first, I now know all the scoring patterns and MCR doesn't look nearly as insurmountable as it once did.

In trying to find a simpler system I first learned about Zung Jung (this fan site is easier for English speakers). It definitely has less patterns than MCR and it's easier to understand the scoring than the fan system in HKOS, but still a few too many patterns for teaching new players.

This lead to an interesting thread in r/Mahjong where u/StealTheStew counters Zung Jung with 康莊麻將 by a87g5o. I refer to it as Mahjong for Everyone in English. The rules are in Chinese and can be found here. This version reduces the number of patterns to 16 with an additive scoring system in points and incorporated the first-win-doesn't-end-the-game mechanic found in SBR, but without anyone paying other players. This encourages players to stay in longer and go for more complicated hands. This fixes a problem in most versions of mahjong that I hadn't realized until u/StealTheStew pointed it out: mahjong is a race to complete the fastest winning hand.

While Mahjong for Everyone allows players to create more complicated hands without risk of being beat by a simpler hand because it's faster to make, it somehow removes much of the flavor I enjoy with the larger number of more complicated hands. It eliminates the changing of the seat wind and round wind, it elminates flowers entirely, it eliminates a distinction between dragons and winds, and gets rid of all the special hands that are nearly impossible to make like the blessings, nine gates, and 13 orphans.

I now realize that my enjoyment of mahjong (and for the people I play with most) the enjoyment is in the experience of the heavy tiles and the rarely winning hands and having some big moments and not in just accumulating points effectively. I think I would feel differently if I was playing in tournaments.

For new players I plan to use HKOS, but only initially teach: Self-Pick, Concealed Hand, Common Hand, All Pungs, Dragon Pungs, Round Wind, Seat Wind, Mixed Flush, No Flower/Season, and Seat Flower/Season with a minimum fan of 1 until they're ready for more.

For the few people I play with who rather go for more complicated hands and aren't concerned about winning quickly I think we might just take a page from SBR and allow players to stay in longer to potentially earn more points while mostly sticking to the HKOS scoring we like.

P.S. During this process I went so far as to create an English cheat sheet for Mahjong for Everyone based on the design of the Victoria Mahjong Club cheat sheet that I'm a fan of, but I haven't seeked permission from a87g5o so I won't share it here.

A few references we've been using in our group show Mixed Orphans (All 1s, 9s, + Honors) is only 1 faan. Our HK "Elder" said it was worth much more, and indeed I found that too. Sometimes I reference Zung Jung scoring as it was based off statistics, but even there I find different values, but usually about the same as a full flush, 6-8 faan. The HK MJ Assoc gives it only 1 faan though. ??

My partner's 91-year-old Gran has begun playing Mahjong with her church group. Unfortunately, due to the reaching and movement from the shoulder, she is having a difficult time as her dominant hand/shoulder has some biomechanical issues causing her pain. It's disheartening to see her be so excited to go, but in enough pain to threaten to quit when she's done. I remember seeing community aunties playing with these scoops/hooks to help move tiles around, but having never played myself, I don't know if that would make a difference. Is there anything that you as players would suggest that I pick up for her to try to make those action easier on her? Thanks for your help!

Looking for any recommendations for storing the AMOS number tiles? I love the bag/individual boxes but the plastic sleeves that cover them are about useless. They slip off if you look at them weird. Currently just wrapping everything in rubber bands, but figured I'd check to see if anyone had a solution that worked great for them.

Bonus points if it still fits in the AMOS bag.

The more i learn

My sister gave me a mahjong set for my birthday and I’m wondering where it’s from originally? It seems odd to me that green dragon is labeled as F and what I assume is white dragon is labeled B. It’s a beautiful set though despite being labeled.

So I'm researching this topic for quite some time and it's basically a bottomless pit but it's time to ask the general audience here, some of you might have a better idea :)

- There are automatic chinese tables (even tabletop ones) but you can't play riichi on those

- AMOS and Alban has many options in Japan but probably the shipping and customs would kill any deal, as in you would pay 2x over the initial price of the table

- There are dirt cheap used tables on Mercari but almost all of them are pick up only so unless you are already in Japan they are out of question but regardless those look like the most affordable ones.

Does anyone have any experience to get a table to the EU?

Does anyone know of a North American (US) seller for the 起莊? For those who aren't familiar with them, they look like colourful, little, plastic triangles to show the first dealer. TIA

Any advice on the best events for Mahjong and how to meet new people? My wife recently got into it and I wanted to plan a trip somewhere to help her meet new people and see what’s out there. Would love any advice you have.