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Why do I play reach mahjong, rather than some other kind of mahjong?

Okay. Try looking on the internet for places where you can play some other kind of mahjong, or downloadable mahjong games. You just might conclude that reach mahjong really is the only way to play.

QFT!

There are actually a few true 4 player mahjong games in English (eg Four Winds Mahjong and Hong Kong Mahjong), but their numbers are vastly smaller than the infinite number of Tile matching solitaire games that ignorantly claim to be \"Mahjong\". Sigh...

well yea there are a few games and sites that offer HK and other variants but i didn\'t even bothered to search for them. When i learned about CO and HK and then riichi i just concluded that this is the most logical and playable mahjong variant :) so i think most of us never even bothered about finding for example HK games.

Robert wrote:Try looking on the internet for places where you can play some other kind of mahjong, or downloadable mahjong games. You just might conclude that reach mahjong really is the only way to play.

Could you elaborate on this please? I don\'t see how this is the inevitable conclusion from trying to look for software on the Internet.
Don\'t get me wrong - Japanese is my favorite mahjong, and I\'m even playing in an all-day game today (with secondhand cigarette smoke, not online), after I\'ve tried playing several variants, not only on the computer... I\'m just seeking clarification of the point being made by the originator of this thread.