free java mahjong

[mmcirvin]

This is real mahjong, not that stupid solitaire game with the pile of tiles.

The AI players are really simplistic, and I still suck at it.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It took me a little while to get the rules straight. After a few hours, i managed to break even, so i quit.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It's probably the most fun if you have some familiarity with the rules but are still as much of a piker as I am. I think last night I was already getting to the point of outsmarting the fairly dumb opponents (who, as the author says, always go for the quickest win and can therefore be clobbered with the occasional big-scoring hand).

Some would, of course, argue that it's not real mahjong unless you are actually in danger of losing your shirt.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I may have just had a good run of luck...

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what I'm doing, and I have no idea if I won anyway.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

These are pretty much the rules. (http://sky116688.tripod.com/mahjong/rules.html) The person who wrote the game is in Singapore, so this is probably pretty close to what the applet's doing. Variations in the game are mostly in how to score special hands; the scoring is impossibly byzantine and I only understand a tiny fraction of it.

There's also an American variant of mahjong that was a craze in the 1920s, had a lot of restrictions on how you could win a round and was basically all about weird special hands.