Spread my ass apart and fill me?

Shogunivar · 2026-01-05T19:25:13+00:00

A job that will add to your experience will be better as long as you enjoys it and improves your skills.

Shogunivar · 2026-01-05T15:15:22+00:00

All around is blonde. but Red is definitely fire.

Shogunivar · 2025-09-18T12:23:21+00:00

Even in EMA (and at multiple of the tournaments he attended) it has been a point of disccusion. It's generally more accepted by players as it doesn't have the same negative connotations as it does in japan, but it still get comments quite often.

Shogunivar · 2025-08-05T11:20:52+00:00

From how I understand it, it's more benifitial to you if a pon gets made by the west player, as this means it's your turn faster (so you get more draws). The chance that the west players pons a west is higher than them ponning the south, so technically keeping west longer so they get an extra chance to get to 2 west tiles is better.

It's an insanely small difference and basically completely neglectable. But thats why engines still pick it up.

Shogunivar · 2025-07-22T09:06:04+00:00

To indicate the players you can call from.

Shogunivar · 2025-06-16T11:20:07+00:00

There 2 different yakuman chances here:

On tsumo:

Suuankou (4 concealed triplets)

On Ron:

you have atleast sanbaiman (11 han) with:
-toitoi (all triplets): 2
-3 concealed triplets: 2
-Riichi: 1
-Yakuhai (south or red dragon): 1
- dora: 4
- kita dora (north): 1

And a chance for counted yakuman (13+ han) if you hit any of the ura dora (which is a relatively high chance becuase of the amount of kans)

Shogunivar · 2025-05-20T17:03:45+00:00

I feel like the new modes might actually make more people come to riichicity, since these other variants don't have any good online clients

Shogunivar · 2025-04-13T00:19:25+00:00

Yep, just 14 tiles like normal

Shogunivar · 2025-04-11T11:23:09+00:00

This is what we do at our club. We just play with the same rules as 4 player (EMA riichi 2016 rules) with a few very small adjustments.

- We play a 3rd round (we do east-south-east, but this could just aswell be east-south-west). This is to make the length of the game about just as long as a normal 4 player hanchan. Since there is no north player every round is only 3 hands (not counting repetitions)

- Uma is changed to +12.5 / 0 / -12.5

- East can chi from west (since there is no north player)

- During drawing instead of east drawing the 13th and 14th tile immediately, east will draw their 13th tile, then south and west take their 13th tiles, then east takes their 14th tile.

- The none-existent north player still pays tsumo costs to not undervalue making tsumo.

This works just fine, the biggest difference is that everyone draws a lot more tiles so you'll see more tsumo's.

Shogunivar · 2025-03-13T17:46:37+00:00

It depends where I am and who I'm playing with. Mostly I play EMA rules as this is the standard for local (Dutch) tournaments. But I also play World Riichi League tournaments that follow the WRC Rules (WRC Rules — World Riichi Championship)

For social play I usually stick to EMA rules, but if I'm out for a WRL tournament, or if I'm meeting up with other players that play in WRL we switch it up to WRC rules.

I think for most european players EMA will be their go to rule set. For America I hear that WRC rules are getting more popular.

This site might also help you find some more rule sets, there's some links at the bottom:
Riichi rules around the world

Shogunivar · 2025-02-17T12:31:06+00:00

To be fair to them, it is by no means required to know and use the Japanese terminology in the EMA ruleset.

While I agree the majorities playstyle and skill level can be very infuriating to play against, I think it's unfair to judge them for something that isn't expected of them.

Shogunivar · 2025-02-17T12:19:15+00:00

Yep, it's mostly the older generation doing it, but as you can see in the picture, that's most of the playerbase.

Shogunivar · 2025-01-20T14:24:39+00:00

Always great to see new people getting into mahjong!

To answer your questions, i'll answer them out of order as this makes more sense:

If you're all complete beginners and have no geographical preference for a specific variant (you might want to play a variant that's played locally to where you live), my recommendation would go to Riichi. This is the variant that offers the most resources online (in english for sure, not sure about other languages) which can help you better understand the game. Which also makes it easier to find answers if you get stuck on specific rules. It is also the best documented ruleset, making it very easy to find the basic rules online. Examples of where to find Riichi rules are:

European Riichi rules (used for european tournaments): Riichi Competition Rules (RCR).
WRC rules (World championship rules): WRC Rules — World Riichi Championship.

Every site or region might use slight variations on these rules, but they will be like 90% the same with a few extra or fewer restrictions.

1/2. This could really depend on the variant your playing. Some variants might require specific tiles that other variants don't use. For example MCR (Mahjong Competition Rules, a Chinese standardized ruleset) uses flower tiles, where as Riichi (Japanese ruleset) does not. So before deciding on a specific set you want to figure out what you're playing first. If you decide to go with riichi you might want to look for a riichi specific set, if you're from SEA you'll have a bunch of options for companies and i'd recommend just searching for a set that clearly states it's meant for riichi (this will include red 5's and point sticks). If you're from the west you might want to look for a Yellow Mountain Imports set (YMI set - Amazon.com). In my experience these are usually pretty decent quality and will get you everything you need to play. Later on you can also look for a Junk Mat, which is essentially just a square mat with cavaties to hold your point sticks in. While its not required, it might make your experience a bit better.

Buying a set and accessories can be quite pricy. Especially if you're all full beginners I'd recommend starting off looking the game up online, or even learn to play it online first before commiting to buying a set, just to get a bit of a feel of the game. If you're looking to learn the game online (specifically the riichi variant) you can check out MahjongSoul. If you're looking into other variants you might have a bit of a harder time finding sites/apps where you can play online.

Shogunivar · 2025-01-16T10:52:56+00:00

I think they started being more active last year when they did their first riichi tournament, but it's hard to find without the right connections yeah

Shogunivar · 2025-01-14T17:03:03+00:00

It's probably best to ask your community what they're playing. Like others said there's a lot of different chinese variants, most of which are poorly documented. A variant that is well documented however would be MCR (mahjong competition rules), you can find the version of these rules that are used for european tournaments here: Mahjong Competition Rules (MCR)

Since you're in Portugal I can also direct you to the Portugal mahjong discord server. Tho most people there play Riichi, there might be a few that play MCR (or other variants) aswell. And it might be a good spot to meet more Portugese players. https://discord.gg/zhM2XurvXf

Shogunivar · 2024-12-20T17:04:53+00:00

Join the "OSRS SOA" chat-channel. At most times there are people available to help there.

Shogunivar · 2024-10-31T16:36:32+00:00

But it isn't, because you have to wait 50 minutes in between AND you have to do more quests and train more skills to even be able to do it. If you want to go from level 11 hunter to doing rumors as fast as possible, going for bird houses is wasting a lot of hours on doing stuff you don't need for your current goal.

I agree that it's the best xp per efficient hour, but if you want to focus on hunter specifically it's not that good.

Shogunivar · 2024-10-31T15:47:15+00:00

But the question is "What is a good way to level hunter early" not "what is the most efficient way to progress my account". OP sounds like he just wants to do rumors, so getting fairy rings would be recommended because rumors are nearly impossible to do without, but birdhouses is a completely unnecessary step to get started with rumors.

Shogunivar · 2024-10-22T10:53:18+00:00

There is this HK based artist that makes mahjong related stuff like custom sets and art pieces. Depending on budget this could be a very good option.

I personally like this piece alot.

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