Guides
Minor update: Thanks to some recent fixing by Osamu you can now add comments on the guide pages themselves. Well, if the need to strikes you, of course, it-it’s not like we did it so we can read your feedback! Hello there! We have created a beginners guide to
That was all you need to know to play, really. For further and more detailed information you can check out detailed rulebooks and stuff. The thing is, although we do love to play and don't mind sharing what we know, there's a huge gap in skill
This is a quick and dirty guide to jumping into games on tenhou.net, currently the biggest Japanese mahjong site online. For further information on everything on tenhou I would refer you to Alvin’s tenhou documentation site [http://arcturus.su/tenhou/]. Remember to sign his guestbook. Load it up
If you have never played online before or don't really know what to expect, I recommend skipping on to Part 3 [https://osamuko.com/complete-beginners-guide-to-online-mahjong-part-3-playan/] and coming back later for the lecture. Now that we've gotten the rules out of the way, I want to give
Table of Contents Part 1.5 [https://osamuko.com/complete-beginners-guide-to-online-mahjong-part-1-5-playing-on-tenhou/] Part 2 [https://osamuko.com/complete-beginners-guide-to-online-mahjong-part-2-how-to-not-suck/] Part 3 [https://osamuko.com/complete-beginners-guide-to-online-mahjong-part-3-playan/] (well, almost complete) This is the absolute entry-level page for anyone interested in playing Japanese Mahjong online on Tenhou and other sites. If you've always wanted
Entertainment
1. Always attack, unless you should be defending. 2. Always defend, unless you should be attacking. 3. If you are an expert like me, you can even try attacking and defending at the same time. 4. Only deal tiles that other players cannot use, or you will be helping them
Osamu found these some time ago. Kind of distracting at first, but I’m used to them now. When I win a match I can look up and find approval in their eyes, and when I lose they are still there, tirelessly cheering me on. Here’s the link to
tenhou
My attention was diverted to a mahjong thread the other day, and something among the posts caught my eye, a welcome change from the usual jaw-dropping, eye-bleeding, rage-inducing tenhou screenshots. There was a certain amount of conjecture regarding the quality of play as well as the amount of bots, or
tenhou
Tsuno is adding rules to this list rather frequently, new stuff in bold. -Uma 5-10, 5-15, 20-50 -Wareme -No Tochuuryuukoku -Houra renchan -Add 1500 points to the hand value for each renchan counter (normally 300 points) -Washizu -Yakitori -Can go below 0 -Atama hane -Two aka dora in each suit.
Club Reviews
On January 24, I had attended the first USPML [http://www.uspml.com/start.htm] event that they held in Manhattan. I had first found out about this organization from this post on MahjongNews [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/index.php/ec-riichi/53-ec-2010/620-uspml.html] that was linked to me
tenhou
Tsuno has recently added a new, optional, rule for Tenhou CHAMPIONSHIPS, ‘shuugi’, which I’m sure a lot of ‘PUROS’ will jeer at. Shuugi rewards players for luck. Basically, for every ippatsu, aka dora and ura dora you get a bonus point. You get points for tsumo, ron and for
I haven’t played on ron2 in months, so I went to cancel my subscription and was amazed at how they handle cancellations Most subscripted based services allow you to use whatever remaining time you have left after cancelling but Ron2 decides to be completely different and delete your account.