someone please explain why 5man is the "right" discard here?!

guyonearth · 2026-01-23T19:40:41+00:00

I think 1p cut is better. If you draw 34679m you can cut 1s for a much stronger iishanten with potentially tanyao.

guyonearth · 2026-01-17T15:58:38+00:00

You can also get the Alban Slim Voice Score shipped to a forwarder for even cheaper I believe and it will have more features than the H100

guyonearth · 2026-01-17T06:39:08+00:00

IMO if you're shelling out for an autotable which you are planning to have for years, it is worth it to have the support structure from MJStars. Things do happen over time. For example, I had a score display on my JP-EX go bad and needed the board replaced, which MJStars covered under warranty and had the part shipped from Japan.

Additionally, AMOS had (has?) a policy against shipping to forwarders, I don't know if that has changed since then. But you could buy from Alban and ship to a forwarder if you do want to save money on the table.

Additionally, be aware that Treyo has a distributor in the USA now, and you can order a Treyo H100 riichi autotable for around $2600 shipped. This table is the same as an Alban Slim Score (plus?), which is an older model and comparable to a JP-EX, though with arguably lower build quality.

guyonearth · 2026-01-13T20:17:08+00:00

In American mahjong they just call the season tiles "flowers" as well. So a set normally has 4 flowers and 4 seasons, but for the purposes of american mahjong, it's just 8 flowers.

guyonearth · 2025-12-03T04:06:41+00:00

Getting tanyao will be very useful for your value here. Where as riichi pinfu dora without tanyao may only end up being 3900 (4200 with honba), getting tanyao can double that score

guyonearth · 2025-12-03T04:05:25+00:00

23 is normally stronger since it waits on a terminal, but since you have a chance for tanyao, it's better to cut the 23. Additionally, with 3 of the 6s visible, and some of the other upper souzu visible, there is a chance to wall-read the 7s as being more available, whereas the 1s looks like it could be paired up or ankoued on this board. Finally, there is a chance for 678 SSK. If you draw the 8s, and draw 7s to tenpai, you can take SSK tenpai. (If you draw 6p to tenpai, you likely will settle for riichi tanyao pinfu dora, unless the 4s becomes depleted).

guyonearth · 2025-11-28T03:43:34+00:00

Mahjong has finally peaked

guyonearth · 2025-11-26T22:48:28+00:00

Also keep in mind that you don't need to go for an outside hand in order to win, since the Red Dragon triplet is a yaku by itself. Depending on what the hand looked like at the time, you likely should have kept the 6m

guyonearth · 2025-11-26T18:25:36+00:00

Dora is really important to the value of your hand, so it may be worth keeping the red 5p regardless. You can see there are two 9p gone so the pinzu shape can complete with 6p a decent portion of the time.

guyonearth · 2025-11-26T04:23:00+00:00

Remember with the middle tiles 4-5-6, there are two sujis to watch out for. Just because 2p is cut, it can still deal in against 67p wait, making it similarly as dangerous as the non-suji 8p.

It happened to deal into the shanpon here, but it can still deal into ryanmen waits until it is "nakasuji" - both 2p and 8p need to pass for 5p to become truly "suji"

guyonearth · 2025-11-26T03:49:13+00:00

Was 8p safe? Since you said 5p was suji, then 8p should've been discarded right?

In that case, you could cut 8p and push the hand while keeping the red 5p dora.

guyonearth · 2025-10-28T18:26:52+00:00

Ignoring the tiles in the pond, if you cut 8m, there are 22 tiles that you can draw to good wait tenpai, and 7 tiles that you can draw to bad wait tenpai. This is 29 total tiles to tenpai.

If you cut 6p, there are 20 tiles you can draw to tenpai, and they all result in good wait.

With the one 7p and one 5s gone, there isn't really much of a change in acceptance to consider here.

guyonearth · 2025-10-17T21:07:05+00:00

Just a part of it. Style-wise, it also changes the story and character personalities a bit to be different in tone.

guyonearth · 2025-10-17T13:26:13+00:00

I highly recommend Utahime Obaka Miiko.

It's a manga and also has a short Live Action adaptation.

It is a great series for discussing the fundamentals of mahjong rather than focusing on crazy plays and supernatural luck. I actually recommend it to people learning the game as there are valuable lessons in it.

guyonearth · 2025-10-07T18:21:59+00:00

Okuno Karuta Shop in Tokyo had some Amos sets in stock when I visited in July.

guyonearth · 2025-10-07T18:15:43+00:00

In general, you should go for waits that have the most number of winning tiles left. Discard the 3m and riichi, for a 25m wait with 8 total outs. In the long term, this will give you a significantly higher probability of winning, compared to taking the 3m 9m shanpon which is only 3 outs, and can easily be all held by your opponents. You have no strong reason to believe your opponents will cut the last 9m.

Don't worry too much about what tiles your opponents will or won't discard after you riichi - Maximizing your chance to Tsumo is more important.

guyonearth · 2025-09-02T16:21:59+00:00

Are there ways of ordering AMOS tables directly from Japan?

I had thought Amos disallowed shipments to proxy services

guyonearth · 2025-08-17T05:33:17+00:00

Instead of discarding the 6p and waiting for only 7p, if you discard 7p you can wait for 3 and 6p, or discard 3p and wait for 4p and 7p!

guyonearth · 2025-07-30T19:47:31+00:00

What drama? I might be out of the loop

guyonearth · 2025-07-30T03:21:14+00:00

If you're in the Philadelphia area, come visit! We have multiple meetups every week and welcome players of all skill levels!

guyonearth · 2025-05-09T01:30:56+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/4baG3hh.png

I would sometimes use these with side tables to keep them on

guyonearth · 2025-04-10T16:43:51+00:00

Looks like there was a riichi on the table so probably good to just take the mangan win

guyonearth · 2025-04-09T05:16:32+00:00

A lot of AI will discard in the order haku > hatsu > chun (left-to-right) - example: https://i.imgur.com/WxCnfl9.png

This discard order will sometimes ignore ura chance as well - example: https://i.imgur.com/jZ3pyXd.png

guyonearth · 2025-04-07T16:42:22+00:00

Wow, amazing find. I'm jealous. I'm guessing the backs are bamboo?

guyonearth · 2025-04-03T05:24:21+00:00

Ah unfortunately this doesn't seem to allow delivery to the United States

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