How do you play the Mahjong games such as Mahjong Gakuen? What are you trying to achieve in this game.

-- Lord AxE (alvaromarques@hotmail.com), July 06, 2000

Answers

Ask Phil Lamat, he's a great specialist of this game ...

-- Lagavulin (darre@cybercable.fr), July 07, 2000.

Surprised you didn't ask me... The goal is simple, you want to create a winning hand, in the gin rummy style tradition (easiest way to explain it) Which means you can use either 3(or 4) (IF you go 4, you have to go all 4) of the same card, (example: Three North Winds), or go for a run (sequence) (example: 2, 3, and 4 of dots) Once you are 1 tile away, you can declare that if you wish, allowing for more points if you win, but you are then locked in to not being able to discard any more tiles from your hand, you either use the opponents discard or your draw, and that's it. Oh, about the opponent's discards, if his discard will make your third (or fourth) card, you can take control of it to build your hand. You can no longer declare at one tile, and those tiles are now face up. If you have any specific questions on Mahjong, just ask.

-- Chris parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), July 07, 2000.

Thanks.

Alas, I did search for mahjong and found the mahjong webring. (http://www.ninedragons.com/scoring.htm)

Does the blank tile represent the white Dragon? If Not. What does it represent?

What do the following commands mean/do?(taken from marukin 'romset') Kan Reach Ron Chi Pon Flip

-- Lord AxE (alvaromarques@hotmail.com), July 08, 2000.