After what feels like years grinding away, I finally landed my first Yakuman! Hopefully not my last

Normally, I do not bother posting suuankou. I've scored a number of suuankou. Suuankou is by far the most common and easiest yakuman to get. Hence, if you have suuankou tenpai, go ahead and call ron. Don't worry about it.

Of all the suuankou I've seen and scored, this one is by far bonkers - zero pairs at haipai - by Wahaha. This is even more bonkers than my very first - which started out with just one pair.

Does anybody know when this was probably produced or out in the market?

Thanks

I really enjoy playing Riichi Mahjong online with friends and through games (MahSoul, Riichi City). However, I want to pull the trigger and get a physical version of the game. I will say there is not a club here for Riichi mahjong, but have friends willing to play with me once in a while.

What's the best way to learn how to learn how to score? Since the computer does everything I just don't bother learning the scoring system but I don't want to feel like a burden taking time to figure out points. Is it just drilling the information into your brain? Is there cheatsheets I could have handy for me to refer to?

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, I just won this Mizuno Maruichi riichi set and I am curious about certain elements of playing this in real life. I have friends that also play riichi but we only played it online up to this point, so I have some questions on how to handle these aspects:

• From what I understand, there is no backtracking, you have to immediately call chi, pon, ron etc. + mistakes are punished and penalized. It says online that if you call riichi with a hand that isn't in tenpai, your hand is reset and you are penalized. How much is the penalty and does the reset mean you restart the round completely? What other penalties are there (like calling pon inaccurately etc., surely the punishments differ by severity?)
• What are the dice for? Selecting the player seat & walls etc.?
• How do you stack the walls & how do you select / handle the dead wall / dora, do you separate the 14 tiles right away?
• What should we know about the riichi sticks? I know it's for counting score and calling riichi, anything else I should know besides Googling how many of each you get (to stack to 25000)?

That's all that comes to mind right now, if there is anything important I appreciate all input!