if anyone wants to play mahjong, rezuul went over the basics of mahjong and my mahjong apocalypse games last week:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1749237728but the basics of mahjong are as follows:
>there are manzu (red and black characters), pinzu (circles), souzu (bamboo), and honor tiles (dragons and winds)>every hand has 14 tiles>you draw and discard tiles to build a hand>you need four groups (triplets or sequences, like 123), one pair, and a yaku to make a winning hand>image related has basic yaku you can go for (all simples, aka tanyao, is the easiest)>you can win by drawing the last tile you need (tsumo) or by someone else discarding the last tile you need (ron); needing only one more tile to win is called being in "tenpai">you can only ron on tiles you haven't discarded; if you discard a tile that you later need to win, you're in furiten and can only win by tsumo>you can call (steal) other people's tiles to make your hand by opening your hand and calling with chii, pon, or kan>chii lets you complete sequences by taking a tile from the player on your left>pon overrides chii and lets you complete triplets by taking a tile from any player on the board>kan makes four of a kind, draws another tile, and discards>no yaku means you fucked up your hand, you can salvage it but it's usually difficult and requires luck>you can play perfectly and luck will still fuck you overif you want to practice, mahjong soul (
https://mahjongsoul.game.yo-star.com/) allows you to play vs ai in friendly rooms; if you create a friendly match specifically vs ai, the game lasts until someone reaches 30k points, so instead create an east-only or two winds room and add ai until it's full for a full match experience.
more guides on mahjong:
mahjong soul's guide is good for beginners, so I recommend going through that, it also has a yaku hand guide built into the game that you can consult during games under settings -> other -> view yaku
https://riichi.wiki/Main_Pagehttps://mahjong.guide/a-beginners-guide-to-riichi-mahjong/my dms (I am a novice though)
