Me too. At family gatherings we would just sit around and play… I kicked ass the first time I played. But yeah, that was just beginner's luck~ I'm not exactly the best at it now.
Yep but I think Claymore is worse, at least that's what I remember. I have yet to learn how to play Mahjong
-Gasp- Alex! How can you not know? It's an Asian game, you should look it up because I don't know how to explain it.
Is Jack still here? Because I haven't seen him again and you two change your usernames too much! I can't keep up with it!
He is onwe are ninja so you won't find us unless we let you prepare to bow before my awesomeness but that's too late now you already done it before
Jack.? I love Jack. Alex, mahjong is sort of like Chinese Rummikub or Rummi or whatever the fuck that game is called. You play with these thick tiles that are better quality than normal… whatever… like jade or something that's crackable. Don't drop the tiles otherwise they might crack and you'll get yelled at. A lot.
The rules are pretty confusing; I can explain them but I think it would just make you extremely confused. It took me a while to learn and I could see how to do stuff. Also, there are different ways of earning points. My dad's family plays one way and my mom's family plays another, like extra points for directions other than the one it's on or you have, extra points for such and such flowers, etc. Yeah. Confusing.
Okay I'm just going to explain it. So basically you get tiles and you try to make some number of groups of three (I forget how many). There are three main types of tiles: Chinese numbers, bamboos, and circles. There are four of each tile. To get a group of three, you can either get three or more of the same tile or a consecutive line of three. (The bamboo tiles have 1 bamboo, 2 bamboo, 3 bamboo, etc. Same thing for the circles and numbers). You also have to have one pair of the same tile. It's played with four people, and everyone takes turns. When it's your turn you can either pick a tile from the facedown pile or take the facing up tile the person before you put down. You can only take that tile if it completes a set of three, either consecutive or matching, and you have to put it out on the table as opposed to keeping it in your "hand" of tiles. This means you can't take any of the tiles in that set to use in another set since it's out. Then you put a tile from your hand face-up so the next person can go. If it's not your turn, you can still take the tile the person put down, but ONLY if it completes a matching set of three (not consecutive). You have to quickly shout "POHNG" (idk how to write it in English) before the person takes a tile. Then you put those three face-up on the table, and put out a tile. Everyone in front of you has their turn skipped. You win when you have some number of pairs of three and one matching pair of two (I forget how many threes). This is just scratching the surface. There's still wayyy more. There are other types of tiles beside the three main types.