There are 2 types of people: 1) love the idea to play mahjong 2) trying to 100% yakuza

Wanted to learn it but this is so complicated. I opted for something easier and built a spaceship while finding a cure for cancer instead.

I swear my grandmother taught me how to play this game when I was 7and I was a fucking legend at it but my grandmother took this game very seriously. Watching this video gave me flashbacks of disapproving glares from my grandmother whenever I messed up. I cried twice during this video.

I love how you say “the game is quite simple” and then begin to explain how fucking complicated it is.

Here are the rules and how the game works: -Each player starts with 13 tiles. -In order to win they need one pair and four melds(three of the same tile, four of the same tile, or a straight). -When its your turn you can pick up a tile from the drawing pile and add it to your hand or discarding it. however if you keep it you have to discard another tile because you have the max of only 13 tiles. -when you discard the tile a person can pick it up in order to create a meld, but they have to show it to everybody since they picked it up from the discard. If somebody is confused comment below

Explaining the game through Rummy lol, but I don't play rummy either

How far I got in learning these rules before I got stuck: 1. Count the tiles.

it does sound complicated at first but once you play a game or two the rules become pretty straightforward

Instructions unclear . Ended up in a strip club in Connecticut

No I still don't know how.

This is the second video I have visited on how to play mahjong. Both start with 'Mahjong is easy to learn'. Now I need to find two more liars to play the game..

Crazy Rich Asians brought me here

There are many different rules depend on which region of Asia playing the game. From HK, they used 3 pieces of dices to start off the game instead of 2. The discarded tiles don't line up by the players as they just scattered all in the middle of the table. Only the most recent tile discarded can be pick up by the next player and any players can pick up the previous tile if they have three or four of a kind to display. All the old tiles discarded cannot be pick up.

"You now know how to play Mahjong" Ummm, not if your only knowledge of the game came from watching this video, you don't!

We're learning the game and it's a lot of fun! It's really rummy except you use these beautifully made tiles with lovely etched characters on them.

Shit how yakuza 0 got me here...

Anyone else here to understand Akagi? haha

Lol when I was little and was living in China, there was a casino kind of area underneath out compound, where we lived. It contained lots of stuff the a swimming pool, billiards, table tennis table, and tonnes of other stuff. Me and my friend always used to go sneak at the Mahjong playing area, where kinds were strictly forbidden, and used to make pyramids and towers out of these small interesting blocks since we didn't know how to play them, obviously. The funny thing was we almost never got caught but even when we did, the manager didn't usually do much but just kick us out of the area, talking gibberish in Chinese which we didn't understand. Fun times :)

Started to watch Akagi. Thought this would help. My head's spinning. Saw some other videos that explain the game in a matter of several hours (!). What a beast of game. I don't even.

I don't know Rummy, but I usually say it's similar to Poker. The tiles are just like cards, and you're trying to make a hand. You're trying to form sets of Trips (3 of a kind, which is called "pong"), Straight ("chow"), 4-of-a kind (called "kang"), pairs, etc...

I didn't understand anything. God damn I have to win 25k in Yakuza 2 by playing Mahjong -.-

Who's here cause they are learning Mahjong in Yakuza0 to get 100%?

Who else is looking this up because they have no idea what they're doing in Yakuza

now I'm totally confused LOL

I would have to major in Mahjong with a 4-year program in order to learn this.

I watch the first episode of Akagi, I get confused, and I head straight to this video... and I still don't know whats going on in Akagi.

Besides the idea of memorizing all the tiles, the core of the game is a lot simpler than I expected.

>Ancient Game >19th century

I need videos like this that also go into Reach and Doman variations. Yaku, Riishii, Tsumo, Han, Fu... It's like learning a new language!

My mom played it when I was little, but the American version with the cards always seemed stupid to me. By the time I got to college, I was playing it HK style...fast, with scoring sticks (money was settled later) like I play backgammon (with a doubling cube, even) or dominoes (6-love, i.e.). It's not hard to play, but, like Gin, it requires strategy and determination to play well. And yes, I play Oklahoma Gin (20 pts, 10 undercut, 100 game, double everything but boxes on spades, no laying off on gin, and complete double on schneidering [shutout] your opponent) Hollywood Scoring (3 games, but winning the first two obviates the third; otherwise, it's the difference). Learn it, and have fun!

I used to watch my great grandma play with her friends when I was between like 8 and 16 and they would potluck so I got to eat and chill. Filipino comfort foods and not a care in the world, man what a time wish I was a kid again. Miss my grammy. Miss her lumpia.

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If I had known it was so simple I would've started playing long ago. :)

Here for Yakuza completion?

Nice explanation. Thank you. I've known how to play for years, but I want my sisters to learn. I'll point them to this video. That being said, I still can't keep score.. I saw a book of scores once, and wow.. there are a LOT of ways to get big points. Hopefully, my younger sister can make more sense of it.. She's better with things like that, than I am. ^_^ Thanks so much for sharing!! 💗💗💗

It helps when you've played mahjong solitaire for a while :) Didn't realize I was already familiar with the symbols.

Now I can defeat Akagi!! ...Or maybe not.

me, after finishing the video: i still don't understand how to play mahjong

what i learn from this, if you are not akagi then you can’t learn mahjong in 5 minutes.

Time to try that side mission in yakuza

If they make an Among Us Version called Mahjong Us, every Child worldwide would know how to play Mahjong in a Matter of Weeks

perfectly clear. I didn't know how to play before and now I don't

This is like when Jake explains card wars to Finn

These little rectangles are making me hungry! They look like keylime and white chocolate cubes! Yummy!!!

This video is missing a few key pieces of information: - How to break the wall and deal. - Whether or not a Dead Wall is used. - What happens when you call Kong - do you draw a tile from the dead wall or from the live wall if the dead wall is not used. - How to declare a concealed Kong, or opting instead to conceal a Pung using 3 of the tiles and using the fourth to form a concealed Chow (though this is more advanced). - Seat winds and prevailing winds, used in every form of Mahjong. - How to score (actually the most important element). I can't find any information or detailed rules on their website, only the scoring sheet. They could do a lot to improve this.

my aunt brought out our antique mahjong set our grandma bought in when she was still in asia, i always see them playing as a little kid, it's almost like a tradition to play. i'm youtubing everything, i'm not losing

When I was a kid, i like to just stack them together to build a fortress whenever we have it in our house, I would try to make the fortress tough enough to endure me trowing tiles at it, it was fun.

Anyone else want to learn how to play this game after watching “Crazy Rich Asians”

me and my gf are watching to learn for our date nights!!!! 😄

I'm watching this for Yakuza 0

wow..so much for understanding AKAGI...big fan of kaiji so really wanna see AKAGI

Came here from Yakuza 0... I think maybe i’ll just stick to playing Outrun and pool...

Instructions unclear now I have $3Million debt and missing 4 fingers and 1 kidney

The basics are simple enough. Some formalities that aren't important. The scoring system, however, come in many varieties and are very confusing.

tiles looks like edible candy

Well....so much for that Yakuza Kiwami platinum.

How the h£ll is this easy to learn and play

I came here after watching 'Claws'. I'd heard of the game, but I never knew how it was played.

It really is relatively simple. I've been playing for about 8 years and it's a lot of fun. But this isn't the best way to learn. I've taught many people how to play by setting the tiles up and then just walking around the table and playing each hand. It takes about 15 mins. to completely understand.

I was too preoccupied with all the oranges on the ground to understand what you were saying.

ahhh.....I miss playing this game back home in Nepal, Kathmandu...

2:08 sick riichi discard

I’m here because of Saki. Watched the whole first season without understanding anything lol

Ah I see, it all makes sense now. Ten seconds later * mind gone blank*

There is a neighbor here with more 10 people in a small apt playing dominoe or this game day and night, weekends, the problem is when they shuffle the pieces and move around the table and kicking the floor. Every 5 minutes they shuffle the pieces, it's loud, travels to neighbor's ceiling, it seems somebody is rolling the whole floor, when they have their windows open you hear them the obnoxious shuffle, you can from the street. Neighbors already called the police because the game is all day and night and every 5 minutes the shuffle. It's insane. I wonder if they got addicted and making money on the game.

Chick in the denim jacket is extremely cute.

i lol'd at the end when i saw the music comes from royalty free Kevin MacLeod! brilliant!!

Pick up all the oranges on the ground, for crisssakes

I'm guessing the "pong", "kong", and "chow" references are Cantonese? I learned "peng", "gang", and "chi".

The Yakuza games brought me here.

Yakuza Kiwami 2 brought me here. The guy said "it's very easy to learn" and I didn't understand one single thing..

Actually it goes back to the Qin Dynasty (3rd Century BC). The game became popular in the West in 19th century.

This was an ad to go to their website. It was a brief description of an "ancient" Chinese game in a quaint way. Ancient? 120 years? Seriously? "Ancient" in China is over 2200 years ago. This is a Chinese version of a rummy game, and played with tile versions of Chinese money-suited cards. It's modern. It's fun. And although I learned it young, it wasn't until college that I really played it HK street style. These people were playing it way too slowly. It was like watching people count the points on a backgammon table, or taking time to explain that they couldn't collect rent on a property in Monopoly, rather than say, "it's-mine-it's-mortgaged". Yes, that's almost a single word. ;-)

I start seeing rainbows whenever someone start explaining those different tiles.

I know how to play I am very good at it but sometimes I loose track and forget what I am going for

I just want to learn how it works so I can read Kaiji 3

I like play Chinese Mahjong !

TLDR goal is to get a winning hand you will need sets of 3 duplicates or 3 in number order and a pair if a player takes a tile and puts it in the discard pile any player may clame it ONLY if it complements a set of 3 duplicate or in number order (rules for that but for basic first to clame gets it) if done so you must make the complated set face up and put the clame tile on its side. (thats it for the BARE bones if you like the game look more into its just poker on steroids)

I still don't understand goodbye Yakuza 100% completion

Great tutorial for this wonderful game. I use to play it as a child but haven't played in a great number of years. Euchre is the most popular card game here in the great north east, so I'm not sure I will find a group of Mah-jongg people who r in for a game in our snow n ice filled community. But thank you for the easily understood tutorial. Does anyone know where one would find this game that is beautifully painted n left out for anyone's enjoyment?

good

One of my pet hates is people who say "It's quite simple" before going on to describe something extremely complicated

This was actually a great explanation!

ridiculously difficult to learn, but ts is so fun when u actually understand it

So a winning hand has to have 4 melds and a pair, right? So the 4-of-a-kind type meld will never be in a winning hand because there aren't enough tiles (if you only have 13 plus the draw, 4 sets of 3 plus the pair take up all 14 tiles), right?

Crazy Rich Asians brought me here!

geez, no wonder my uncle gave up and had us play 21. XD

I was following at the start but got lost very quickly. Soothing voice, though, I don't regret watching :P

It's actually well explained but no yakus were mentioned. Which are mandatory if u want to win. Just go play mahjong and u will understand just with a video u will be confused no matter how many times u watch.

To start a mahjong game, the dealer rolls the dice, then see what the number of the dice is, count in an anti-clockwise direction, in order to see who goes first, then break the tile wall by the number of the dice. And every player takes 2 tiles, 13 tiles in their hand, The dealer has 14 tiles in his/her hand.

i understood this more than the prev vid

i'm here because of akagi

As clear as mud. There is a class at the senior center, maybe I should try that!

Came to watch this before watching Akagi

Por favor sabe donde lo puedo encontrar en Español las instrucciones gracias Saludos desde puerto rico

I kinda get the gist of it, but I think that just like any game, I would need to play it to really understand it.

I'm trying to learn this so I can win big in yakuza lol

The only thing I learned from this video, is that those people need to harvest their oranges better. They're all on the bloody floor.

Good tutorial my grandmother refined it a bit, but good basic tutorial

Well, there is actually a formula to HU (win) in Mahjong, which is simply: n*AAA + m*ABC + DD, whereby mn>=0.