Sunday, June 14, 2009

How to play mah jong (cantonese) advance version

So if you understand how to play the mah jong i had shown in the beginner version, you can move on to the advance version, which even the professional plays.
In the beginning version, you can see I did not mention any restriction on the winning hand as long as you get sets of trips and straights along with a pair. In this advance tutorial, you will be introduced to a point system, where you are required a certain points in order to claim a win. I will introduce you all the winning hands that I know of.

1.平胡
requirement: no pong, tsumo. Contain straights only and an eye. Worth: 2 points or 3 points with
no chi
example:


2.對對胡
requirement: no chi. Contain trips only and an eye. Worth: 3 points, or 4 points with tsumo and pongs, or 4 points with no pongs or 10points with tsumo with no pongs.
example:


3.special units

any of the above sets will give you one points, with all 3 sets you will get 9 points
4. getting points from the wind
in any round, there will always be a win blowing. having a sets of 3 will give you 1 point

5. getting point from your seating position
if you get the wind you are belonged to and have a set of 3 of that wind tiles, you get another point . The dealer is always east. The person on his right will be south and so on. You get two points if you have three identical tiles of the winds you belong to and the wind that is currently blowing.

6.混一色
requirement: made of completely with one suit tiles and any combination of the special units or wind tiles in trips or straight. Worth: 3 points. 4 points with tsumo, 4 points with no pong no chi, or 5 points with no pong no chi and tsumo.
example:


7.清一色
requirement: made of completely with one suit tiles in trips or straight. Worth: 7 points, 10 points if it is compose of straight only but no trips.
example:


8.小三元
requirement: made of 2 sets of special units and a pair of special unit as eye. Worth: 3 points+
example:
+ any combination tile set
9.大三元
requirement: made of 3 sets of special units. Worth: 9 points+
example:
+ any combination tile set
10.小四喜
requirement: made of 3 sets of wind tiles and a pair of wind tile. Worth: 7 points+
example:
+ a combination tile set
11.大四喜
requirement: made of 4 sets of win tiles and an eye. Worth: 14 points
example:

12. 九蓮寶燈
requirement: just look at the example, i am getting lazy at this point....compose in one suit. Worth: 12 points
example:
+ any1 tile in this set
13. I call this exodia, lol 十三么
requirement: look at example, worth: 13 points
example:
+any1 tile in this set

ok, this is it guys. i wasted my sunday.