Do you play Mahjong?

Play all the time, but i'm always win

 

i love the game, cept i need to know all the different combinations, i really wanna learn the taiwan ver.

lolll anyone watch House of Mahjong?....i wonder if they are real

 

same here! i want to learn taiwanese style.. i heard its better/more fun and u can win bigger money

 

taiwanese style just makes it more exciting because u have 16 tiles each but u dont use the last 8 sets. so u can have scratch games. combos are a little different, like you cant have certain ones like 13 tile combo wins but overall fairly similar. and if u keep winning it multiplies your winnings but if you throw out the losing tile on a streak then u get docked heftily too. but yea. what annoys me is that all these fricken mah jong games out there are some bs solitaire match up the tile bull that americans think is mah jong. so ridiculous. i dont play often cuz it get skinda boring but once in a while its fun.

 

i didn't go through the whole thread but is there a site that tells you what each "hand" is? i just know how to do the most basic one... and theres no one to practice with so i always forget and i dont know how to count points or anything.

 

lose all the time i play i gave up on it

 

its best played when money is exchanging hands otherwise theres no meaning to playin mahjy!!

 

You can practice on HK Yahoo against the computer players, or other online players.

 

i wana learn how to play so we can play at school...we got mahjong playing cards LOL

 

^^ we actually had a mah jong set at school in the cafe. there would be a table for chinese chess, a table for big 2, and a table for mah jong. it was basically asian central those 3 tables. but what was ironic was a white guy brought the mah jong tiles to school ????

 

i love it, but i don't like how it is always percieved to be linked to gambling, can't ppl just play for fun?

 

No but it looks interesting. Good way to use your brains.

 

To find players is a problem. I play the game on the PC against the AI. Hence my Mahjongg skill is really really bad.

 

is it possible to gamble with Mahjong?

 

Of course it is. Mahjerk is gambling haha. You win money for 'eating' and for the combinations of your hands.

 

i aint played it before, it looks like it takes ages to finnish, ill play it when i grow my wise man beard

 

I Love MJ, we have chinese school on saturdays, and we bring it to school just to play LOL.

 

YUP, there are gambling places filled with mahjong tables. The sterotypical mahjong player is a middle aged housewife who spends hours gambling in mahjong.

actually one game of mahjong is very quick. can be as quick as a few minutes and usually don;t last more than 10 mins, unless u play extremely slowly

but ppl usually play more than a few games. usually about "4 circles", as they say. 4 circles is at least 16 games, which is around and 2-3 hours

 

I like this game. I play sometimes.

 

i play but dunno how to count the winnings!!??