5 Common Mistakes You Are Making In Riichi Mahjong

[@YukamiOnYT]

Just started Riichi Mahjong and getting videos that expalin to me why I lose or why I cant form a winning hand, which mistakes I have probably done is good to eliminate the possibilities to never get a win under my belt. Great video.

[@YamiVT]

This video made me realize how little I understand of Mahjong. Super useful and informative, it solves a lot of the issues I've had with discarding. Thank you!

[@nanwijanarko1969]

Amaazing editing and clear explanation. Must have taken a while to put together! Much appreciated

[@Storm-xr7lp]

Lessons straight out of G Uzakus Tile Efficiency book which I warmly recommend to everyone. But this video had very good presentation and summarized strategies well. Looking forward to the next ones!

[@silencesls]

Ryankan is definitely something I have noticed during my game since when I was a newbie, but the theory didn’t really click to me clearly, so this video has been a big help for a knot in my mind. I think I use to notice instinctively the pattern of ryankan when 1. Complex 6 tiles shape with 1 seq, 1 ryanmen and 1 “aloof” tile 2. If the “aloof” tile is another suji with what you wait on ryanmen, the pattern is likely ryankan. ( 134456 is not ryankan while 134556 is ryankan) I will definitely incorporate the knowledge into tile efficiency in my game. Thank you.

[@m.k.6669]

I took the advice in your video and it really improved my tenpai rate and quality! Before this, I rarely have waits on multiple tiles when in tenpai, now I can constantly get two tiles wait in tenpai.

[@prabhatkiranmukherje]

I'm a beginner with two weeks of experience (and watching lots of anime/live action). This primer was pretty useful. As a pro-card player my basic intuition for this was good, so the first half of questions were quite easy, but the second half there's no way I can answer accurately in a few seconds and 5 seconds is the limit on Mahjong Soul. Too much time spent on just figuring out what my hand can/should be, so I can't pay attention to reading opponent discards or noticing how many tedashi vs tsumogiri they are doing. Hopefully learning these basic things doesn't take too long.

[@chanyoungmun5256]

Examples of wrong play are literally just my gameplay😂😂

[@GarrettChan]

Nice video. Thanks for making it. For the hand in 5:28, there's probably one more exception not mentioned where it's getting close to the end of the hand, and you want to be in tenpai, then in this case, fixing the mentsu could be a good idea since you don't care bad waits and just want the widest acceptance.

[@cubostar]

Thanks for the video! I've been watching a lot of your mahjong videos and vods, and it's been improving my gameplay

[@issou9253]

0:53 Great example and it's absolutely true, but I think it's important to mention that unless you're playing aka nashi rules or you're 1st place in All Last, grade B ryanmen are usually better than grade A. Eg, if instead of 445s this was 443s, you'd cut the 4s instead just to accept aka dora into tenpai.

[@plzcme434]

Very informative. Thanks for the video.

[@lemaximiano]

Amazing video, we need more like this

[@Angels-Haven]

if only I knew what this guy was trying to tell me...

[@escapetherace1943]

first examples don't make sense. example one "break strongest pair" example two "breaks weakest pair" no further elaboration. alright then

[@Drawdek]

I somehow lost 6 hours of my sleep playing mahjong in yakuza because i was losing and actually enjoyed the game even if the odds are against you.

[@emsharingan8639]

Best Mahjong KZbinr.

[@EriconatorV2]

Good video, I agree with most points besides the last one, shanpon is just stronger in general than kanchan so you'll win more often

[@deidarabochi]

first-time commenter here, just want to say your content is amazing and i hope to see more from you

[@ninjaditto4295]

definitely learned something here, thanks!

[@kaikulimu]

This video is golden

[@hinether]

I feel I might have been doing some of these in my games, so I shall keep in mind the video next time I play :p

[@ervincoconut]

wow what an informative video! i really learned alot

[@wenguanbin9014]

good video!

[@pourygin9496]

3:23 If you discard 5s you can hope for suji trap tenpai on the 2.

[@muntetaton]

3:46 that's just a ryanmen-kanchan shape, a ryankan is a shape like 357 or 246 (two kanchans)

[@Xanxust1]

Oh yeah, thanks for pointing it out! Fixed the subtitles

[@tak52]

Thank you!!

[@mr.horseshoe2301]

Thank you. I'm stuck in Expert after 1000 games. I need these tips LOL.

[@pokeoh1831]

Y'know I don't even play mahjong but I don't feel like working today so Great video btw

[@MrFeng]

Naisu!

[@small-evil]

1:36 Didn't know this about ryanmen waits but now that you've mentioned it it seems obvious now, having seen that pattern consistently in my games. Question though - does a Grade B/C ryanmen become stronger than a Grade A ryanmen if there are more wait tiles discarded/called by other players for the Grade A?

[@Xanxust1]

Yes, if there are only 5 outs or below for the Grade A ryanmen

[@JohnGarceau-un8ht]

Understand the concepts and work on applying everything here. Looking for one specifically for playing bad hands I started to notice after watching. Supposed to be rare occurrences. Around 5% of the time (laughs) ? Like this hand: 1m,2m,4m,8m. 2p,4p,8p,9p. 1s,8s. S,N,G ; sitting North and Dora is 6m. My understanding in this case it is best not to discard honor tiles and it has a 789 sanshoku possibility.

[@muuubiee]

This tanki thing seems wrong? In this case you have tenpai for a single time wait, but one away from a double sided (though not ideal) improved wait. And you're potentially waiting on 8 tiles to improve it. That is, you're waiting on 9 tiles, where one of them lets you win straight up. That is, if everything is ideal, you'd wait on 3 + 3* (8) + 4 = 31 actual tiles to improve/win your hand. Defintely agree with that 4 tiles in a row is super strong, or any tiles that are near each other are super strong, and can improve waits significantly... But waiting on a pair if you're doing sequences is imo not a bad thing; as long as you don't riichi.

[@Xanxust1]

sorry which case are you referring to?

[@muuubiee]

@@Xanxust1 At 1:50

[@Xanxust1]

Ah I see. The example at 1.50 is just to show the kind of wait that you generally want to avoid. The 2 cases after that are examples of how to avoid that

[@binjiling]

Thank you for your well explained videos, but I didn't memorized the terminology yet (shanpon, kanchan, ...) Could you make a terminology focused video?

[@Xanxust1]

Will make one in one of my future videos

[@CeliriaRose]

Wouldn’t it be better to hold onto double side waits rather than the ryankan? I get it has slightly better tile acceptance but it’s also risky. Like in your example at 4:42 if you ditch the 8m to keep the possible 357m wait you might have better tile acceptance but then if you draw the tiles for the other waits first you are left discarding one end and waiting on a kanchan wait for your final tile. It feels like the slight dip in tile acceptance would be worth it in exchange for the better potential wait to finish on. Especially when waits like 14m and 69m would be solid waits to riichi on.

[@Xanxust1]

Nope cuz you will always have a good ryanmen wait no matter which of the 1m, 4m or 6m you draw in!

[@eden3669]

​@@Xanxust1 i think they meant if you draw into 6p or 4p to enter tenpai

[@Xanxust1]

Same thing applies for drawing 3p or 6p to tenpai, you can cut 7m to have a good wait on 14m

[@OKIGorgon]

2:23 I dunno. Gambler in me says to discard both 8s to try and get sanshoku.

[@Xanxust1]

Discarding 12m still lets you gamble for ssk

[@darmandez]

2:27 what about 1p?

[@Xanxust1]

135p is a stronger block than 12m, so keep 1p for 2p acceptance

[@ergunapelawi6788]

What does no yaku mean, I don't understand at all

[@Xanxust1]

🗿

[@Waran-Ess]

Where do you get those (majsoul style?) images of mahjong tiles?

[@Xanxust1]

Someone posted a link on reddit to the MJSoul game files which includes the tile images

[@escapetherace1943]

Video is useful but if you could slow down a little it'd be even better. Must be doing something though because I won like my first 5/7 hands after watching this video and another video about intelligent discards.

[@genesiskid9847]

Grade???

[@MrOmagaG]

Thanks a lot!