What about other software? Well, the only one I could see using is MyJongg, which is for American style. If there’s a mahjong group in your area, you may also want to get in touch with them to see if they can teach you. If you’re wanting to learn, that’s a good way to do it. It’s almost the only software of its kind that has a decent aesthetic, single-player and online multiplayer, and doesn’t require you to make an account, buy “tokens” of one kind or another, or any other such nonsense. After that, I tried out several different mahjong apps and programs but settled on an iOS app called Let’s Mahjong, which is also available for Android. This was the same one I bought years ago, and it’s very helpful. I’m still a beginner since I’ve only played for a few months now, but my method was to read Tom Sloper’s book The Red Dragon & the West Wind, which covers both Chinese Official and American style mahjong. With that out of the way, one issue that a few people have brought up to me is that they’re interested in mahjong but aren’t really sure how to go about learning to play. Tom Sloper can help you out if you want to know more. There’s more than that, of course, but that should be enough for now. You can also claim other players’ discards. The game is played with four players and on each turn you draw one tile and discard one, trying to form sets of three or four tiles (similar to rummy, as said above) and eventually melding all of your tiles into a winning hand. There are four of each tile, e.g., there are four of the east wind honour tile, four of the one of bamboo, etc. You have a set of tiles (144 in a Chinese set, more or less in other styles) consisting of three suits (bamboo, circles, and characters, equivalent to playing card suits) numbered 1-9, and honours tiles. Now, before going further, I’ll just offer a brief explanation of what mahjong is. I re-read my book, managed to find a decent mahjong iOS app to practice with, and even found a group in my area to play with IRL. After all, the premise is that you’re forming tiles into sets, either sequences (e.g., 1-2-3 of the same suit) or three or four of a kind to form a winning hand. My interest was rekindled a few months ago after playing gin rummy for a while and one of my Twitter friends mentioned that he’d learned the basics of mahjong by thinking of it as essentially a rummy game. I didn’t know anyone who played and the mahjong software selection is bad enough now and was even worse then. It looked interesting so when I saw a mahjong set for sale at a Half Price Books years ago I went ahead and bought it, got a book on mahjong, and never learned how to play.
It’s hard to remember, but I’m pretty sure I first learned about mahjong ( not mahjong solitaire) in the same way I’ve learned about most things in my life, Japanese cartoons.
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