Heh, yeah I am actually alternating between playing Reach in Yakuza 2 (the English subtitled version of Ryu ga Gotoku 2) and in the untranslated samurai spin-off, Ryu ga Gotoku: Kenzan. Given that you can win the majority of the time, with half games I can play (win) twice as many games in any given...

It´s exactly what is done for Riichi Mahjong. Ah, good. Great minds think alike! ;) I´m only playing on video games and I actually often only play a half game - specifically half a Reach game, i.e. only one round. This is the quicker way to rack up points which is handy because the mahjong game is ...

Thank you Shirluban, that´s helpful. :) I think I´ll play a few more test cases to see how the game applies the rule - I assume that a computer player that wins the last hand as East will usually quit if they´re in the lead or otherwise continue. If this option is not allowed (like in EMA rules), th...

I play Reach on PS2/PS3 games and there´s one rule I haven´t been able to fully figure out yet. When the last hand of the final round ends in a Dealer win or a draw the game comes to an end instead of having an extra hand as usual. If any riichi stakes are left on the table they are paid to the winn...

I find a simple \"Doh!\" does the job.

This is one of many situations where real life needs an Undo function! :laugh:

Most Asian forms of mahjong are played with four rounds So of course with Reach it\'s not just the dragon sides that are redundant but the north and west sides too! We could make do with a coin/counter for east and south but the wind dice lets you play a full four-round game if desired. a poker dic...

They are not used in reach mahjong, at any rate. I´ve read a few books recently which cover different versions of the game and don´t remember seeing anything they might be used for... I would have remembered seeing six-player Mahjong with a hexagonal wall, six rounds to a game, and each player havi...

Hi all. Noob question ahoy! I´m playing Reach on video games and don´t own a mahjong set but I was looking at some in a shop at the weekend. (mmmm...) I know that many sets come with a dice (or die!) marked with the wind symbols which sits in a plastic holder to indicate the round wind. I noticed th...

How compact do you want the set to be? I´ve seen some very small sets on eBay like this! http://www.reachmahjong.com/home/images/fbfiles/images/travelset.jpg [ebay]170311292400[/ebay] I don´t know how practical they are in use though. Also might not include red fives. PS I hadn´t seen the YM site be...

Hey, that´s great. Thanks very much! :)

So (with skilled play) about one in 550 winning hands scores Yakuman... that´s reassuring.

I do visit London fairly often but I actually live in Ipswich (about 70 miles away). I´m also very much a newbie!

Do you play real games with real people often?

Thanks for putting this together, it does make interesting reading! I´m playing Reach on offline console games without any stats so it´s really good to see data like this, especially taken from such a large sample. I guess the thing with Big vs Little Three Drags is that there´s only one tile differ...

Hi folks. I've been lurking on the forum for a few weeks while I've been learning Reach but I just had to sign up to announce that I've finally joined the Yakuman Club! :) I had a rather mundane hand, unremarkable except for a couple of kongs, but I got really lucky with the dora - I got eleven! I w...