Mahjong Stuck

[Spyper]

Im gonna be entirely honest im starting to slightly have a headache from this,
I've been going at this ♥♥♥♥ for over 5-10 hours by now at a beginner table and i haven't won a single game with having quarter games, kaitan enabled, 2 han rule disabled and Red dora enabled, i have never had those "Horizontal" tiles on the board or whatever that is
This is the first time i have ever heard about mahjong / played it in this damn game, all i know is that you need to match 3 same tiles or go 1-2-3, or match 4 same tiles and i need some bs rule condition of Triple dragons or triple winds or whatever
This is literally the last thing i need to fully 100% this game, i never get any richii's, i never steal tiles and i never have gotten a winning hand, i always lose with either a 3rd spot or the 4th spot
What the ♥♥♥♥ am i doing wrong? Do i need to:
- Mash the ♥♥♥♥ out of M1 to call Richii? (Mouse 1, because i play on a keyboard and mouse)
- Even bother with stealing tiles? because when i tried that i never lost any points and i was at a 2nd spot doing so, but never gained any points
- Play Only at the Expert table? (The beginners constantly get richhi's or just Incredibly well hands? or something its almost like its rigged)
- Do i actually "Put" the tiles below "Kazuma Kiryu" or do i build my hand on the tiles i have to choose?
You know what? better yet, im just gonna post screenshots below of this ♥♥♥♥ of what i usually do, and maybe i'll get some enlightment, if someone could explain this like a 200 iq to a Fully certified pepega like me that would be nice n dandy,
im starting to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lose it with this ♥♥♥♥, i just wanna be done with it, Catfighting, Batting wasn't as bad as compared to this
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[Linkurn.]

ok so your hand, which is what needs to meet the condition, is the row of tiles at the bottom of the screen
the tiles under your name are the ones you discarded

you did say a lot of right things about what your hand has to end up looking like but I will try to clarify that a bit more
what you need in your hand are 4 groups of 3 (triplets or sequences) and one pair
the additional requirement is called Yaku. There are a lot of different ones and you only need to meet 1 of them.
The triple dragon is a good one to keep in mind but the triple wind one is actually a bit more complicated as it has to be either the table wind (at the middle of the table there is a cardinal followed by a number, that cardinal is the table wind) or your wind, which you can see to the left of your character's face
another simple one is "All Simples" which only requires you to not have any dragons, winds, 1s or 9s.
The good thing about these Yakus is that they allow you to steal opponents tiles and still win the round

The most important Yaku is Riichi which applies to any hand that you didn't steal any tiles with. Once you are 1 tile away you can call Riichi (there is no prompt for it on screen so you just have to press it but you seem to already know that) and then just end the game as soon as the Ron or Tsumo option comes up

you lose points when you discard the last tile someone else needed, another player draws the last tile they needed or there are no tiles left in the draw pile and you are more than 1 tile away from winning

[Paradoxical]

My general strategy was to try for the most populated suit in my hand at the beginning, discarding anything that wasn't already near triplet or 3-straight if it wasn't of my most common suit. You want those triplets as said above or you want a 3 tile sequence of the same suit. Also, if you don't know all the hands...like myself. You should always check if you can riichi, just hit the button for it every round. There were times I won when I didn't even know I had a good hand. It took me a few hours but eventually I scored some wins and my strategy became more refined.

Some things become obvious with experience when you know what tiles you are needed trying to complete from a hand. You look at the board and see that other players already used the tile you need so you can discard them. Or you draw a tile and look at the discard/board and realize it's not going to help you so you can just discard it. End tiles of suits are typically bad to hold unless you have two of them or you already have a 3-straight. It's easy to ditch 1 and 9 unless they look promising from the start.

I think Linkurn. did a better job explaining stuff but maybe you will get something out of what I wrote. Like you, it took me forever to get the mahjong achievements but eventually with patience I did it.

Good Luck and don't forget to do something else in the game if it's pissing you off. The completion list is long, so certainly you can find something else. You won't make good decisions if you are just pissed off trying to rush games.

[Spyper]

Originally posted by Paradoxical:

Good Luck and don't forget to do something else in the game if it's pissing you off. The completion list is long, so certainly you can find something else. You won't make good decisions if you are just pissed off trying to rush games.

Yeah the thingy is, this is literally the last thing i need to do on my CP list like i already maxed Business and Adventure, i might have the other gambling minigames / Fishing but thats about it, i was playing a lil bit more in the night and i supposedly got a Baiman, so that's a start i guess?
All i know, this is like a Japanese Texas hold'em with additional rules, just build 1-2-3, 5-6-7, or go for triplets / quads, This is too much to remember especially the hands / rules, so basically im playing entirely clueless, the way they explained it in the game is just poor. Afterall i have no clue how i even got this hand to be the "Winning" one, afterall from what i remember i declared "KONG" didn't i steal? how is that concealed? Well anyways i have no clue on the rules, its really confusing.
I managed to get like 4/10 Out's and 2 mangans, with like 5 million yen worth of wins for the CP list, so its something atleast
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