Full flush Mahjong question

[lackaname]

Do you need sets in the full flush or can it just be any numbers in the same suit?
In the picture in the hands book, it looks like 2 and 5 aren't included in any sets. Am I misinterpreting this?

[Laivasse]

You need sets. The in-game example hand is pair of 1s, 234, 345, triple 6, 789. Just looks a bit confusing since they didn't group them separate.

If you can get all the same suit in your hand, you're probably not far from being able to check for riichi anyway though.

[June-pie]

You don't need sets, it just needs to be one suit, with the standard four melds and one pair. Here's a picture of one of my Full Flushes for example:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1510481394

Accordingly, a half flush is all of one suit + any combination of honor tiles.

What is similar is a Full Straight, which is 123, 456, 789 in one suit in your hand, but all the other tiles in your hand can be anything else. The Full Straight and Full Flush can be in one hand if you're amazingly lucky.

EDIT: I might have misinterpreted the question. By 'sets' I thought you might have been referring to sequences like 123, as opposed to triplets or quads, which all count as one meld; while you're using set to refer to melds I believe? I'm perhaps too into mahjong now I'm getting flustered by semantics.

[Laivasse]

I believe meld refers exclusively to exposed melds. That's the way Yakuza 0 seems to use the term at least, although I've seen mixed messages from other sources. 'Set' is used to refer to both straights and triplets.

[lackaname]

Thanks! I had melds and sets mixed up.

[Laivasse]

Originally posted by lackaname:

Thanks! I had melds and sets mixed up.

You weren't incorrect though...? You're using the same terms as the tutorial.