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Post by strangeseraph » Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:27 pm

Is this the place for intros? If not please move my thread :unsure:

I\'m a youthful twenty-something player of flash mahjong games who has been slowly becoming curious about the real game they are based on. I\'ve sort of been lurking but just finally made an account.

Hope to learn alot here.

Am I obsessed with mahjong? 4 apps on my iPod Touch, three on my PC, several on DS amd two on my PSP...Hmmmm, I wonder.... :)

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Post by Shirluban » Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:00 pm

Welcome,

You\'ll find a guide for the \"real game\" here:
http://www.japanesemahjong.com/reachmahjong/intro.htm
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Post by Robert » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:23 am

And you\'ll find the real game itself (as a Flash game, with computer opponents) at:

http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/mahjong/mahjong_e.html

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Post by strangeseraph » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:24 am

I went ahead and joined the Mahjong time site and played a game with the robots tutors there. Normally multiplayer games turn me off, but now I\'m frustrated because I want to learn how to play! I\'m intrigued darn it! :P

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Post by strangeseraph » Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:38 pm

By the way, I didn\'t know there were so many various ways to play this game. When I joined the forum I thought \'reach\' was meant in the \'you have to reach out in order to be a good player\'. You live you learn, but I wonder, now that I\'ve been learning reach online, if this is the wrong version for me, with so many kinds.

What happens if I learn reach, then find out the only players in my city are playing another version? If I can find any players, the only casual playing club I\'ve found for Canada is in another province. :(

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Post by strangeseraph » Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:41 pm

Robert wrote:And you\'ll find the real game itself (as a Flash game, with computer opponents) at:

http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/mahjong/mahjong_e.html
Think I prefer Mahjong time\'s version better. I couldn\'t figure out that flash one.

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Post by Shirluban » Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:50 pm

strangeseraph wrote:What happens if I learn reach, then find out the only players in my city are playing another version? If I can find any players, the only casual playing club I\'ve found for Canada is in another province. :(
Mahjong Montreal play Reach mahjong.

If you find players who use another version, you\'ll have to adapt to their version. Since every mahjong rules (except USA) use the same base rule, it will not be very difficult.
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Post by chalwa » Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:00 pm

When you gain experience you will see how slow and not so good to play (like pressing pass all the time) mahjongtime is... I sugest gamedesign, as its better (faster, clear interface, better bots)

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Post by HotelFSR » Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:56 am

I second that.

Big time.

I think that flash game is the best introduction to the game in English.

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Post by strangeseraph » Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:22 pm

HotelFSR wrote:I second that.

Big time.

I think that flash game is the best introduction to the game in English.
But there\'s no instructions, nothing explaining to me what is happening, everything is done automatically. I get more instruction from reading wikipedia\'s mahjong entry than from that flash game.

For people who know how to play already it must be fine, but I had no idea what I was doing until after reading a bunch of pages, and doing one of the mahjongtime tutorial games. :|

I guess to each his own.

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Post by HotelFSR » Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:07 am

Shirluban already gave you the best guide!


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Welcome,

You\'ll find a guide for the \"real game\" here:
http://www.japanesemahjong.com/reachmahjong/intro.htm

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Post by kylone » Sat Dec 26, 2009 6:13 am

Believe it or not, tvtropes has a decent intoduction page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mahjong.

It gives a good overview, without being too technical. (At least, I think so.

Also, the european mahjong association has a decent rulesbook pdf.

http://mahjong-europe.org/rules/index.html

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Post by Poochy » Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:17 am

kylone wrote:Believe it or not, tvtropes has a decent intoduction page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mahjong.

It gives a good overview, without being too technical. (At least, I think so.
Heh, I actually started and wrote most of that article - see the page history if you don\'t believe me. I\'m glad to see you think it\'s good! And please do contribute anything you can think of that I (and my fellow tropers) may have missed.

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Post by b4k4ni04 » Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:54 pm

*Checked the page history*, heh, awesome. ... it\'s far too easy to get lost for hours on that site <<;.
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