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is a pretty neat site that lets you play various versions of Mahjong online.
You can create your own game or you can join in on the fun, and they offer a wide variety of rule variations depending on what you're familiar with. (For the record, HK rules are the one true set of rules.)
Free accounts have a daily "chip" limit of 1000, where you can play more games if you win more often, but otherwise when you run out of chips for the day, you can't play anymore until you get topped up the next day.
Mahjong Time is also kinda neat because the game tells you what the tiles are as they are being discarded, so you don't have to worry so much if you don't read Chinese.
If you're totally new to Mahjong and kinda wanna learn how to play, you can read this:
A MahJong for Beginners Class Outline (PDF) that I put together for a course I'm going to teach at a local community centre later this year.
Games go pretty quickly on that site, but if you set up your own game, you can set higher turn times so you have more time to think about what's happening. I won't have much time to play until next week, but I'm happy to help with any questions you may have (so long as it's about Hong Kong Mahjong since that's the type I've been playing all my life).
Like I said I have no idea how interested you guys are in this, but if you are, let me know what your username is on that site!
Man, it's been ages since I've played Mahjong. I used to play it fairly regularly in my childhood, and got absolutely schooled by my Nanna on more than one occasion. Never trust old Hong Kong women at a Mahjong table, even if they absolutely shower you in affection and hand knitted scarves the rest of your life.
If I get a cheap plastic set will Asian people laugh at me and scorn me behind my back? Should I bust out some scrilla for a ceramic set? Also Amy and I are getting a table tennis table for free. We just don't have anywhere to put it.
cheap plastics will probably mean you'll be buying another set soon, because they can get chipped and the faces worn down pretty quickly if you but too cheap
Alright, bidding on a cheap Ebay set. They are engraved, so even if the corners get ratty the symbols should hold up for long enough for me to decide if I wanna drop like $250-$400 on a flashy set.
I only really play when I see my cousins or when one of my mom's friends wants to take a break from their mahjong marathon, and then I always get schooled.
For $31 including postage and insurance, I now own a set of Mahjong tiles. Well, my credit card company does, but whatever. They'll be at my house, not Mastercards offices.
Your fuckin' family's dug into the Southie projects like ticks. You, however, grew up on the North Shore, huh? Well, la-di-fuckin'-da. You were kind of a double kid, I bet, right? Huh? One kid with your old man, one kid with your mother. You're upper-middle class during the weeks, then you're droppin' your "R"s and you're hangin' in the big, bad Southie projects with your daddy on the weekends. I got that right?
Some say Confucius created the game back in 500 BC, but he was busy doing many other things and most agree that this myth only exists because Confucius did basically everything.
oh viv, I used to play mahjong with a chinese mate of mine in high school a bit but haven't played in a while, given we are in a similiar time zone I am keen to get back into it, i've forgotten a lot of the rules, reading your thing now
Well I just got my tiles. For $13 I can't complain. The tiles are really quite nice, but the shitty box they came in is a shitty piece of shit, so I'll probably end up just making one out of wood.
My experience with Mahjong essentially exists with me playing online once with two guys I play games with and have met a bunch of times at parties and this one guy from America who I relentless shit talked during the whole affair about how I would shit on him at Mahjong. I was ahead of him until the second last round having never played before. He was burning up inside and I considered it a rousing success. I should probably learn to play properly though as it seemed like a genuinely interesting game.
Yo Viv, you still feel like teaching people to play this game? Maybe next week we can hop on that site there and you can help me learn to play? Is that what you were offering?
I will read over your guide beforehand.
My friends and I play a variation that involves wild cards and features a two-point max hand. Games go much, much faster than usual and there's always lots of action.
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I'm probably too lazy to play online though.
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and I'd be happy to teach ya! I've been looking for regular people to play with since I moved here
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I'd invest in a half-decent set
ebay sells them too
http://toys.shop.ebay.com.au/Board-Games-/2550/i.html?_nkw=(mahjong,mah+jong)&_armrs=1&_from=R10&_ipg=&_pcats=220&_sop=1
(don't get the Mini sets, they are made for tiny people)
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while fun, it's a different kind of game
Japanese rules, Japanese language, may or may not float your boat.
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I only really play when I see my cousins or when one of my mom's friends wants to take a break from their mahjong marathon, and then I always get schooled.
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I learned to play it a long time ago, but I want to learn again, with a rad set and the tiles and shit.
Probably some opium or something too.
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are you surprised I wrote a GUIDE to learn mahjong?
I will look into this game later.
it will be pretty awesome
Teehee.
half the shit that Confucius said
he didn't actually say
Well I just got my tiles. For $13 I can't complain. The tiles are really quite nice, but the shitty box they came in is a shitty piece of shit, so I'll probably end up just making one out of wood.
All I gotta do now is learn how to play.
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
now i have to read the rules, ive always wanted to try (and inevitably fail at) this game
I suck at it though.
Someone teach me to not suck.
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
I will read over your guide beforehand.
what is this and where can i see more?