Gradually learning every Yaku is what separates the novices from the adepts. Mahjong was good, but it still felt like I was stumbling into my hands, through luck. This lack in fundamentals would lead to a lot of unwinnable games, but eventually I was able to get some podium spots. Instead, only the soul to my left can have that happen, while everyone has the risk of a Pon, which are attaining three of a kind, hanging above them. Only later, much later, I found out that I can't Chii any player that would align my tiles in a sequence of three. After I learned the basic Yaku list, like getting three honor tiles of the same winds or dragons, I dipped my toes into the real stuff. I took my time and, eventually, figured out why I didn't have a Yaku, which is the win condition, while having all the basic steps completed. That sizable gap in knowledge would surely get me chewed up and give me an instant aversion to a game that genuinely seemed interesting. I, on the other hand, was a greenhorn who learned everything they knew two weeks ago, from parsing a stream where two others had just started gleaning the material. My thought process was that mahjong has existed for a long, long time, so even people in the lowest rings of the player rooms were likely to have been playing the game for a while. Thanks to them vocalizing their process, I was able to latch onto the basics, enough for me to download Mahjong Soul, to train for the next episode.įor some time, I restricted myself to playing in the room with artificial intelligence (AI). ![]() Back in the olden times of late 2020, I, like many of us, saw Jan and Ben get really into mahjong, so I started to learn alongside our hosts.
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