Weekly Anime Post 185

Riichi Mahjong is kinda like a mix of poker and buraco (or gin rummy, for Americans). You play against 3 other players, each one of they receive 13 tiles at the beginning of the round, in each turn they draw one tile from the wall and discard one tile of their hand. The objetive of the game is to make 4 sets and a pair. To make a set you either make a sequence of the same suit (1-2-3, 2-3-4, 3-4-5, 5-6-7, 7-8-9) or a three of a kind. If you have two tiles of the equal tiles in your hand and one of the player drop the third tile you can "open" your hand by saying "Pon" and take the discarded tile. If you have an incomplete sequence, like 2-3, and the opponent to your left drops a 1 or a 4, you can "open" your hand saying "Chi" and taking the discarded tile. In addition to needing 4 sets and 1 pair (in most cases), your hand also needs to have a yaku in order to score, a hand can have multiple yaku, and the harder it's to achive it, the more valuable it is. If a player discards the tile that you need to finish a hand, you say "Ron" and take the points directly from him, if you draw the winning tile, you say "Tsumo" and take the points from everyone (if your hand is worth 9000, you take 3000 points from each player).There is some stuff that I didn't say, but it is better to see how it works in a video.

It's rummy. You just draw and discard to make patterns in your hand. It's just that everyone and their aunt has a different sets of patterns so the game seems more complicated than it is.

It's like forming poker hands but with many patterns

Something like rummy I guess