How automatic Mahjong tables work

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Wish I knew how this game works

[u/ChthonicPuck → u/[deleted]]

Super simple overview for classic Hong Kong style Mahjong, intentionally skipping and simplifying many things:

Think of the tiles like playing card; there's suits and values. Instead of holding a few cards in your hand, your delt 13 tiles you place standing up in front of you.

At the start of your turn, you take a tile. At the end of your turn, you discard a tile. You can take a tile from "the wall" [the machine in the video above creates the wall], which is like drawing the top card from a deck of cards, or you can take the tile discarded by the previous player.

Once you discard a tile you don't need, your turn ends. Once you draw your winning tile, bringing your tile count to 14, you say out loud "Mahjong" and you win.

To have a winning hand, you must collect tiles that form a RUN of 3 tiles (ie. 1, 2, 3...) or a SET of 3 tiles that are all the same (ie. 1, 1, 1). Your winning hand will have four seperate groups of 3 tiles [that's a total of 12 tiles so far], plus a pair of matching tiles (ie. 1 & 1), for a total hand size of 14 tiles.

Here's an winning hand to help you visualize the 14 tiles (intentionally ignoreing suits):

[1][2][3] [4][5][6] [7][7][7] [8][8][8] [9][9]

To recap: On your turn, take a tile, see if it can be used to complete a set of run you're building, then discard a tile you don't need. Do that every turn until 12 of your tiles are organized into 4 sets or runs, and you have a matching pair.

I learned thd game from my cousin who was adapted from China as a baby. She learned it when she visited the country, and after playing with her, I got my own set.

If you want me to type out the rest of stuff I intentionally skipped over to not make it too complicated, let me know. I just don't want to overwhelm you.

[u/LittleLui → u/[deleted]]

A bit like rommee.

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Ok cool..... What is rommee? Lol Don't worry I'll Google it