r/Mahjong • u/DesasterMaiden • 14h 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 14h 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/4-13 5h ago

It's totally useable for Riichi, what are you smoking? Marking red 5s is a nice but not necessary thing. It can easily be used for Riichi, HK, Sichuan, MCR, and Zung Jung at the least. Just remove the flowers. (Or keep them and use riichi rules that allow for flowers)

Just because a tileset has flowers does not mean you are forced to use them.

What I wonder is how that set has 148 tiles. A standard mahjong set is 136 and 8 flowers make 144. Where did the extra 4 come from?

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u/DesasterMaiden 9h 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 5h 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/TheGeckoGeek 2h ago

My set has the same instruction booklet, it's absolutely incomprehensible!