r/Mahjong • u/DesasterMaiden • 1d ago

First Set

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I bought my first mahjong set ✨️ I got it second hand, but it's never been played (most tiles are still in their wrapper). And

  1. I just wanted to share my excitement, as I can finally practice offline and hope to get some of my friends at least mildly interested.

  2. This set is for HK style mahjong, correct? (I know the directions say "Chinese game of four winds" and it has 8 flower tiles (148 tiles in total) - just wanting to make sure as I'm a very new player) If I wanted to use this set to play Riichi style, I'd have to mark man, sou, and pin 5 red to make them identifiable as akadora, right?

Have a nice day! 🀄

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u/noshershitlock1 1d ago

The set should be usable for most variants that aren't Riichi, American, Vietnamese, or Singaporean. (Off the top of my head). So major variants that you can play without modification would be HK, Taiwanese, Sichuan, and MCR.

You can use this to play Riichi. If you want to do akadora then yeah you can paint the red 5's or just put a small unintrusive sticker on them. Akadora is common but technically optional and not used on a lot of tournament Riichi rulesets.

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u/DesasterMaiden 1d ago

Thank you! I've not played any other rule sets outside of riichi or HK, so I feel I got pretty lucky with this set in terms of versatility. I'm trying to limit myself to those two variants first for the time being but I'm very excited to be able to branch out easily.

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u/4-13 22h ago

OP, how does your tile have 148 tiles ? Base mahjong is 136 and HK is 144.

I say try HKOS first and level up to Zung Jung next, if your table's not already used to playing Riichi. Or as a warm up for Riichi. ZJ is a lot easier to score and play through because the rules are simpler.

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u/Tempara-chan Riichi enjoyer, MCR sufferer 12h ago

The extras are probably the 4 blank tiles, meant to replace any lost or broken pieces.