![]() ![]() Because of the furiten rule in riichi mahjong, a player cannot win off a tile they have already discarded, or has been discarded after riichi. If we decide that we are going to fold, then we should do so by discarding the safest tiles first, which would be tiles that we know are absolutely safe. Instead, mahjong defence is primarily about trying to discard tiles that they’re probably not waiting on.īut before we get to the ‘probably not’, lets first cover the ‘definitely not’: Furiten tiles Reading hands and pinpointing exact waits basically doesn’t exist in real mahjong (as much as anime and manga might imply they’re a huge deal for dramatic effect). Basic Aspects of DefenceĪ key thing to understand about defending in riichi mahjong, is that it is not about trying to guess what tiles someone is waiting on. In this article we’ll cover how to defend, in the next article we’ll look at when to defend and go through some examples. Without defence, it is a lot easier to lose points in riichi mahjong than it is to gain them! These two aspects combine to make defense a very important part of riichi mahjong, as for the majority of hands we won’t be the winner, and for those hands we want to do our best to make sure we don’t deal in. In riichi mahjong, when we deal into someone else’s winning hand, we must pay the full amount of points that hand is worth, so dealing in is effectively -1 win. Mahjong is a four player game, so it stands that if your opponents are a similar skill to you then you can expect to win around 25% of the time (actually less, if you include draws). ![]()
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