Mah Jong aficcionadi...is there one shape that you can never win?

[Critters2]

Me, I HATE that damn dragon!!!

[graywarrior]

1. I am so addicted to that stupid game

I win when I've played for 4 hours and I'm near exhaustion at 2 am

[Critters2]

2. Me too!! I can't walk away....

UNTIL I WIN!!!

[graywarrior]

3. Do you play free online or did you download and pay for it?

[Critters2]

7. It came loaded on my laptop. nt

[tigereye]

4. I don't play online - we play weekly IRL with real tiles

I've never played the online one - I would miss the tiles clacking. Half the fun!

[graywarrior]

5. Ouuu, they have sound effects online

Plus you can swear when you don't win

[tigereye]

6. it's fun handling the real ones- they just feel nice in your hands.

Don't mind me - it's just fun to play with real tiles in the racks and on the table. We don't swear or gamble when we play, but it's still a lot of fun. If you want some real amusement, rent some of those Hong Kong Mah Jongg videos, some of em are hilarious. Lots of slapstick.

[graywarrior]

8. I'm afraid to move into real life Mah Jong.

I'd never do anything else

[Critters2]

I never do anything else now. In fact, I suspect this is Rick Warren's secret

to building a huge church. I'm guessing he doesn't play mah jong.

[graywarrior]

12. Never thought of it that way

That seems to make him a better person than I am. Fuck him.

[Critters2]

13. If we could get him to start, we could destroy his empire from within.

I say we send him an invite to an online game. :evilgrin:

[graywarrior]

14. That is such a good idea

We could conquer the world that way.

[Critters2]

15. Indeed. We need to make a list of all the people who should be playing

mah jong instead of spreading hate and evil. Some e-mail addies will be harder to get than others, but I think we've hit upon the way to win the battle between good and evil. Mah jong is the ultimate weapon!!

[graywarrior]

16. Some of them are probably too dumb to play.

[Critters2]

17. Good point. Damn! Foiled again! nt

[tigereye]

21. well, actually we play after we do tai chi and that's we started playing

(we play at a local church afterwards) - so maybe there is some truth to that = I suspect there are some Zen and Taoist principles involved, anyway...

[tigereye]

20. we just do it once a week!

maybe it's good I don't play online :scared:

[Critters2]

9. The tiles clack on my laptop. The cats love that noise.

They also like the fireworks when I win.

[graywarrior]

10. Yeah, my cat comes running when he hears the clacks

[Critters2]

11. I've never played IRL, so I have a question.

How do you set up the tiles without knowing where the matches are? I mean, without the computer setting 'em up.

[tigereye]

22. first you put all the tiles face donw in middle of 4 racks (arranged in a square)

(one for each player) and then you stir the tiles with your hands (they are face down). Then you line them up against your racks in the front of each rack/player, also face down - lined up in rows of 2). One is the "dead" wall - the last one you pull from as the game starts to wind down.

Then you roll the dice and the highest number player goes first, after you push out a wall from the racks so you can start picking tiles in turn. Each player takes 4 tiles until you have 13 tiles from the wall each, and the player who starts gets 14, so that they can throw out the first tile face up to start the game. You put all of those 13 tiles facing you on your rack and sort them accordingly to suite, either dragons, numerical cracks, bamboo, winds, etc.


Then you either pick up a tile from the wall in the middle, or pick up the previous player's tile if you can put it out. Each player has to pick up and then discard each turn. I guess I think of it as sort of playing rummy, but with Chinese- themed tiles! Whomever majes first with the best combination of pungs (3 of a kind), runs or kongs (4 of a kind) wins!



I should look at the online one, since I don't know how different it is!


on edit, you don't know where the matches are - you have to make them yourself!

[Witchy_Dem]

18. Yeah, the Fortress. nt

[Enthusiast]

19. Is there a good (free) source

of online Mah Jong?